Re: HPT to TIFF image scaling?

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about C or RPG.  Or just the psudeocode to do it.  :)
If it were that easy, they wouldn't be asking a couple grand
for it I would think.  

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 14:53:08 -0600
 "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How about from PCL to PDF?  You can write a little
> ActiveX object in VB to
> do this for you in about five minutes if you already own
> the Adobe license.
> 
> 
> 
> Shannon O'Donnell
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:59 AM
> Subject: Re: HPT to TIFF image scaling?
> 
> 
> > In this particular application, it needs to be TIFF.
> But
> > I'd be interested in hearing if there is a WSCST that
> you
> > can use to create the BMP.
> >
> > It just seems to me there should be more settings,
> either in
> > the print file or with the HPT or WSCST used to scale
> the
> > image to fit.  Since it prints fine..
> >
> > If I could convert from PCL to something.. then it
> would be
> > worth it.  But everyone charges an arm and a leg for
> that
> > type of application source.. :)
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 11:29:15 -0600
> >  "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hey Brad,
> > >
> > > Did you try converting it to a BMP to see what
> happens?
> > > TIFF is a peculiar
> > > image format internally. It can be a real bear to
> work
> > > with. BMP, on the
> > > other hand, is relatively straight forward and if you
> > > need to access the BMP
> > > headers of that image, it can be an order of
> magnitude
> > > easier.
> > >
> > > Just a thought.
> > >
> > > Shannon O'Donnell
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> > > <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 11:13 AM
> > > Subject: HPT to TIFF image scaling?
> > >
> > >
> > > > I have some AFP documents that when printed, look
> > > great.
> > > > But, if I use the HPT API to convert it to a TIFF,
> some
> > > of
> > > > the right side data gets cut off.  In one case it
> even
> > > > wrapped the data to the left side.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any thoughts on a remedy for this.
> Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Brad
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