Re: HPT to TIFF image scaling?

["Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah. It is that easy to convert PCL to PDF if you already have Adobe
license. It's a single call to a single API.

You could also do it in C++.   Don't know how you'd do it in RPG. At least
not without a lot of work!


Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 3:53 PM
Subject: Re: HPT to TIFF image scaling?


> 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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