Ed writes:
>I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
>for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
>again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).
>
>How can I do this? I don't want to pay, obviously, or I'd use
>something like MKPCL, which works but without paying puts lines
>through the image.
>
>Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
>

Use the 'convert' command which is part of the ImageMagick package
(should be in the freeware part of the sco stuff).

convert file.jpg file.pcl

scott

On Jun 12, 12:45 pm, Ed wrote:
> I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
> for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
> again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).
>
> How can I do this? I don't want to pay, obviously, or I'd use
> something like MKPCL, which works but without paying puts lines
> through the image.
>
> Can anyone help point me in the right direction?
>
> Ed

GSview? http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/index.htm

ImageMagick? http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

Ed typed (on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 10:45:17AM -0700):
| I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
| for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
| again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).
|
| How can I do this? I don't want to pay, obviously, or I'd use
| something like MKPCL, which works but without paying puts lines
| through the image.
|
| Can anyone help point me in the right direction?

ImageMagick's 'convert' program is one way to do it.

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JP

In article <7ae084e9-4a85-43c0-ae17-e1295fd2b0f0@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
Ed wrote:
>I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
>for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
>again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).

If you have the gwxlibs package loaded:

jpegtopnm jpg-file | pnmtopclxl > outfile

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John DuBois"
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Subject: Re: Convert JPG to PCL


> In article <7ae084e9-4a85-43c0-ae17-e1295fd2b0f0@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
> Ed wrote:
>>I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
>>for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
>>again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).
>
> If you have the gwxlibs package loaded:
>
> jpegtopnm jpg-file | pnmtopclxl > outfile

Sweet!

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John DuBois typed (on Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:14:54PM -0500):
| In article <7ae084e9-4a85-43c0-ae17-e1295fd2b0f0@z72g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
| Ed wrote:
| >I need to convert an image (in jpg right now on Windows) to a PCL file
| >for SCO Unix. I've done it once before, and only need to do it once
| >again (it's a signature that I need to add to a printed document).
|
| If you have the gwxlibs package loaded:
|
| jpegtopnm jpg-file | pnmtopclxl > outfile

Limitation: you get PCL-6 output.
If your printer only groks PCL-3 or PCL-5,
that command won't avail.

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JP