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suricata
suricata

Reputation:

Generate PCL from PDF in Java

What is the best way to generate a PCL output file from an existing PDF file in java?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 7307

Answers (3)

Bob Pooley
Bob Pooley

Reputation: 36

We capture PCL generated from Acrobat printing a PDF to a PCL driver and redirect as input to our Windows console PCLXForm program. With a custom script, we can "stream edit" the PCL. We can extract the address block text for address correction, insert the corrected text, add the Intelligent Mail Barcode, 2-D barcodes, sort the documents, batch them by page count, change tray assignments, merge with other documents, etc. The product required is PCLTool SDK - Option V at www.pagetech.com

Upvotes: 0

Kai
Kai

Reputation: 11

The StreamPrintService from JDK 6 does only support PS. I am still searching for a StreamPrintService which supports PCL.

Upvotes: 1

cdonner
cdonner

Reputation: 37668

It depends on how much you want to invest, and how robust the solution needs to be. For quick and dirty, you can print from Adobe Acrobat to a file, using a PCL driver (look, mom, no Java ...).

The Java Print Service API can process PDF. Use StreamPrintService and write the stream to a file, using PCL for the output format.

If you need to have more control over the content, maybe modify it or add to it, you can use a PDF parser (this one, for instance) and print the resulting HTML from a browser that your application starts, by adding some Javascript, for example.

Upvotes: 2

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