Hi,

I need to edit .pcl file ( which we are using as a BAAN printing overlay ). File it self, is located on the UNIX server. One of our former BAAN experts used a BAAN session to acomplish this but I am not sure witch.
I tried to edit file using "vi editor", but no luck.
Any suggestion is wellcome.

Miro

Hi Mvr210,

What on earth does your question have to do with the OST website announcement? Plase use your common sense when you want to ask a question. I am moving this post to a more convenient place in the forum.

Sorry ...... my bad!!!

Miro

Hi Miro,

No worries, if you post your question in the right place, the more chance you will have to get answers to help you :)

Thank you for your help.

Normaly it is not so funny to edit a PCL file directly. From which file do you create the PCL?
What do you ned to change?

For my experience its easier to edit the original file (ie. a Word or Excel document) and then re-create the .pcl by printing it to file on a windows machine using a HP-Printer driver (PCL5 or PCL 4. NOT PCL 6! PCL 6 is a totaly different language).
Another way is copying the pcl to a windows machine and use a text editor of your choice to edit the file. This works if the change is not too complex.

Look at the hp home page for a description of PCL. In the printer docs you will normaly only find a small subset of the pcl language.

hth

Regards
Christof

Thank you for the suggestion. I just need to add one account number. Maybe I'll try with command "mkpcl" or as you suggested create the file in Windows and than convert to Unix file.