Thread: java component to generate the report file in post script format

I have no experience with any Java packages that make it "easy" to write PostScript files from Java applications. How "easy" it is would depend on what kind of files are being created by the application. Text files with different font faces and sizes? Some adornment (lines, etc.)? Graphics figures? Embedded graphics files? What?

I'm a little curious:
What kind of package (if any) was used to make it "easy" to write pcl files? What was its API? Knowing that might make it easier to find a functional replacement for creating PostScript or PDF files. If it was all raw, brute-force PCL-specific stuff embedded in the application, well, I can't think of any way to help.

However...
As a non-Java solution, similar to your previous method, you could try GhostPDL from here GhostScript GhostPDL Download page

I used it for a project that had a lot of PCL5 files and I needed something viewable and printable on my Centos Linux workstation. Using that program to convert pcl to pdf worked (most of the time). Did not have access to source to see how the original project actually created the pcl files. (It wasn't Java.)

Building the executable was a snap ("./configure" followed by "make") with GNU gcc version 4.1.2. Never had to touch any of the C source files.

There were a couple of flaky pcl files that, for some reason, created pdf files that could be viewed with Adobe acroread, but wouldn't print. (All of them that I had would print OK from kGhostView. Go figure.) Files had various graphics shapes and adornments as well as almost-chaotic fontamonium and color and stuff like that.

There are scripts supplied in the "tools" directory so that the conversion from pcl to pdf is easy to automate, and there is a Java-based viewer, Gview, under the tools/viewer directory for rendering a pcl file to the screen without having to convert. (You can print from Gview if you want to, rather than converting to pdf and viewing and/or printing the pdf file.)


Cheers!

Z

Hi,

Thanks for you comments,

We are using root-river.jar(Licensed jar) for create the .pcl file as PCL5 format.

Issue: After migrate the application from SOLARIS, WAS4 to Linux, WASCE server, Application is not print the file.

we are executing the lp command through application in Linux for printing the file. have raised this printing issue to support team for investigation, Also find the support team commands below,

Application exports its file in a PCL format for printing. This needs to be converted to PS before being sent to a printer. lp on Solaris converts the format transparently just before sending the file to the printer.

In Linux : lp -d 10.220.230.80:MB000155 -c prc7686.pcl
lp: unable to print file: server-error-service-unavailable

The easiest way should be, from an sys-admin point of view, that application export files directly in PostScript format. This way allows us to easily set up a system allowing to print exactly as the users were used to on Solaris.

As you said we have one more solution by using the GhostPDL(Non java). Please let me know(step to do) how to implement it our application.

Originally Posted by Zaphod_b

I have no experience with any Java packages that make it "easy" to write PostScript files from Java applications. How "easy" it is would depend on what kind of files are being created by the application. Text files with different font faces and sizes? Some adornment (lines, etc.)? Graphics figures? Embedded graphics files? What?

I'm a little curious:
What kind of package (if any) was used to make it "easy" to write pcl files? What was its API? Knowing that might make it easier to find a functional replacement for creating PostScript or PDF files. If it was all raw, brute-force PCL-specific stuff embedded in the application, well, I can't think of any way to help.

However...
As a non-Java solution, similar to your previous method, you could try GhostPDL from here GhostScript GhostPDL Download page

I used it for a project that had a lot of PCL5 files and I needed something viewable and printable on my Centos Linux workstation. Using that program to convert pcl to pdf worked (most of the time). Did not have access to source to see how the original project actually created the pcl files. (It wasn't Java.)

Building the executable was a snap ("./configure" followed by "make") with GNU gcc version 4.1.2. Never had to touch any of the C source files.

There were a couple of flaky pcl files that, for some reason, created pdf files that could be viewed with Adobe acroread, but wouldn't print. (All of them that I had would print OK from kGhostView. Go figure.) Files had various graphics shapes and adornments as well as almost-chaotic fontamonium and color and stuff like that.

There are scripts supplied in the "tools" directory so that the conversion from pcl to pdf is easy to automate, and there is a Java-based viewer, Gview, under the tools/viewer directory for rendering a pcl file to the screen without having to convert. (You can print from Gview if you want to, rather than converting to pdf and viewing and/or printing the pdf file.)


Cheers!

Z