PCL is a kind of digital printed document which can describe the layout of text and graphics for the document. The command line application VeryDOC Postscript to Image Converter allows you to convert PS to PCL document easily and quickly. This application is a really a powerful one that can convert PS or EPS format file to many kinds of image formats.
Postscript to Image Converter is a command line application and you need to open MS-DOS interface for calling it when you want to convert PS to PCL. Before starting the conversion, please download the tool application to your computer via clicking the following downloading link: www.verydoc.com/ps2img.zip.
When just been downloaded to your computer, you can not use the application at once because it is a ZIP file which need to be extracted. After you extract it to some disk, you will see the package which contains all the components of Postscript to Image Converter, among which there is an executable file named as ps2img.exe. It is the called program of the conversion from Postscript to PCL.
If you want to buy the application after you evaluate it, just enter its homepage at https://www.verydoc.com/ps-to-image.html where provides several kinds of licenses for meeting the requirements from different users. At the homepage, you can also learn more information about the application such as its functions, features, related commands used in the command line, etc.
There are three steps in the conversion from PS to PCL. Please see them below.
- You need to open MS-DOS interface. Please click “Start”—“Run” to open “Run” dialog box. Then input “cmd” or “CMD” in “Open” combo box of “Run” dialog box and click “OK” button. You can also use the hot key “Window”+ “R” to open “Run” dialog box. Then MS-DOS interface will pop up on your screen and you will be able to input your command line in it.
- The command line contains three parts: called program, source file and target file. The called program is the executable file ps2img.exe in Postscript to Image Converter we mentioned above, the source file is the PS format file to be converted and the target file is the PCL document to be created. There is a command line example in the following contents and there is also a specific interpretation for explain the command line for you.
- Then you need to hit “Enter” button on your keyboard to run the conversion from PS to PCL, which is the last step in the conversion.
The command line is like the following one:
ps2img –i C:\Test-01.ps –o C:\Test-02.pcl
In the command line,
ps2img stands for the called program. You need to use its path in the command line for calling it from your computer.
–i C:\Test-01.ps is the path of source file. Please don’t forget the option “-i” before the path.
–o C:\Test-02.pcl is the path of target file that you need to specify yourself. The option “-o” can not be ignored, either.
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