Question: HP-PCL5-renderer

[Martin Roob <Ma...@objekt-management.de>]

Hello,
we are using FOP for a while.
Now, we have some need for using it on an OS/390 host system.
There are some problems with the pdf-format on that machine.
Native PDF printers are expensive and unusual.
Existing converters (for example IBM Infoprint Server) are too bad.
There is also a performance problem with the conversion (we have to
print lots of documents, lots means something like 80000).
So it would to be really great to have a PCL5 renderer.
Now the question(s):
Does anyone know an existing FO to PCL5 renderer ?
How difficult is it to write one for FOP ?
Are there any additional documents available how to write renderers for
FOP ?
What output quality could I expect from such a renderer ?
Any ideas are welcome
Thanks
Martin Roob

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Re: Question: HP-PCL5-renderer

[Carlos Villegas <ca...@uniscope.co.jp>]

Hi,

How about using ghostscript to convert PDF to PCL5? But it is probably
not ported to OS/390.
Just a thought!

Carlos

Martin Roob wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> we are using FOP for a while.
> Now, we have some need for using it on an OS/390 host system.
> There are some problems with the pdf-format on that machine.
> Native PDF printers are expensive and unusual.
> Existing converters (for example IBM Infoprint Server) are too bad.
> There is also a performance problem with the conversion (we have to
> print lots of documents, lots means something like 80000).
> So it would to be really great to have a PCL5 renderer.
> Now the question(s):
> Does anyone know an existing FO to PCL5 renderer ?
> How difficult is it to write one for FOP ?
> Are there any additional documents available how to write renderers for
> FOP ?
> What output quality could I expect from such a renderer ?
> Any ideas are welcome
> Thanks
> Martin Roob
> 
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Re: Question: HP-PCL5-renderer

[Christian Geisert <Ch...@isu-gmbh.de>]

Martin Roob wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> we are using FOP for a while.
> Now, we have some need for using it on an OS/390 host system.

I will soon have a similar need (printing on AS/400)

[..]

> Now the question(s):
> Does anyone know an existing FO to PCL5 renderer ?

I think Art Welch has mentioned a PCL renderer sometime, maybe he can donate
it to FOP ?

> Any ideas are welcome

I've been thinking about setting up a printer on linux via apsfilter
which accepts PDF.

> Thanks
> Martin Roob

Christian

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Re: Question: HP-PCL5-renderer

[Fotis Jannidis <fo...@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>]

Maybe you could use org.apache.Fop.apps.PrintCommandLine ? It 
uses the AWTRenderer and doesn't rely on pdf but on the printing 
system of the OS, but maybe the output quality isn't as high as 
you need it. 

> Now the question(s):
> Does anyone know an existing FO to PCL5 renderer ? 
Art Welch mentioned that he wrote a PCL Renderer. You could 
also ask at www-xsl-fo@w3.org (http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request)

> How difficult is it to write one for FOP?
Don't know. Is HP still selling their pcl specification? 

> Are there any additional documents available how to write renderers for
> FOP ?
No, but Renderer and PDFRenderer have some comments, which 
should be a good starting point.

> What output quality could I expect from such a renderer ?
I think this rather depends on the way you write the renderer and 
the quality of the input (image resolution, fonts etc.), but Art would 
be the one to ask.



Fotis

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