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Hey everyone,
I am looking for a way to convert word documents into PCL format.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Brian

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Presumably you can use "Print to file" with a PCL printer selected.

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Hey everyone,
I am looking for a way to convert word documents into PCL format.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,

Brian


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If I do that it creates a PCN file. Is this comparable to PCL? What
is the difference?

Thanks

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Let's back up a bit. Why do you want a PCL file? What do you plan to do with
it?

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If I do that it creates a PCN file. Is this comparable to PCL? What
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I just started my new job on Monday and the application that we have is
written in DB/C. What we want to do is be able to output formatted
templates (including images, bold fonts, etc.) from a print call inside
of our application. Right now it is handled internally, but we cannot
add formatting to the text with the way that the DB/C code is
implemented. SO they asked me to find a way to output a text file into
..PCL format and our application will call and print it. This way I
figured we could use Word or open office to format the template and
then create a PCL file from it.



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Well, you've totally lost me, but I would suggest you try posting to the
microsoft.public.word.printingfonts newsgroup.

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I just started my new job on Monday and the application that we have is
written in DB/C. What we want to do is be able to output formatted
templates (including images, bold fonts, etc.) from a print call inside
of our application. Right now it is handled internally, but we cannot
add formatting to the text with the way that the DB/C code is
implemented. SO they asked me to find a way to output a text file into
.PCL format and our application will call and print it. This way I
figured we could use Word or open office to format the template and
then create a PCL file from it.


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THanks anyway for the responses. I just posted to
microsoft.public.word. Maybe a good question to ask would be, what is
the difference between a .PCN and .PCL file?

Brian

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Sorry, typo, it is actually a .PRN file.

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A .prn file is what you get when you use "print to file." It's a file
formatted for a specific printer and can be used only by that printer.

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Sorry, typo, it is actually a .PRN file.


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Probably a .pdf file might be more appropriate.

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Sorry, typo, it is actually a .PRN file.





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If you look in the .prn file you will see that it contains PCL commands.

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