PCL2PDF Solutions

PCL2PDF

LBM Systems is the exclusive North and South American distributor and support centre for Visual Software's PCL2PDF software for OEM, webserver, developer and corporate licensing. Contact LBM Systems to communicate with a Software Engineer, obtain evaluation software or to ask us to convert sample output for testing purposes.

PCL2PDF converts LaserJet PCL print files to industry standard PDF (Portable Document Format), linking your batch/application printing processes to automatic, text searchable PDF generation without user intervention. PDF documents can be viewed and printed using the free Adobe? Acrobat? range of products. Distribute your converted print files around the Internet or your company Intranet for easy viewing, searching and printing.

Click here to read about one example of PCL2PDF in use at one of the world's largest insurance companies.

PCL2PDF quickly converts PCL print files to concise, industry standard PDF. This is not a raster based conversion. Use command line versions in batch and unattended operations. Fully configurable. Specify default printer "front panel" settings including page size and orientation. Pcl2pdf automatically selects sensible defaults. PCL2PDF can convert files of 1000's of pages. Use Adobe? Acrobat? from Windows, Mac and Unix to view your print files, print to local printers (including non-PCL) and search for text. PCL2PDF produces PDF documents that are fully text searchable word for word. Adobe? Acrobat? uses PostScript and TrueType fonts for display giving superb font rendering quality.

LBM handles the following PCL2PDF licensing requests:

PCL2PDF - Server Edition
PCL2PDF - Webserver Edition
PCL2PDF - OEM/Developer Distribution requests

Customers using PCL2PDF include:

3M | Agilent Technologies | Caterpillar Inc. | CitiStreet | Duracell | E.I. duPont de Nemours | Ingersoll-Rand | JP Morgan Chase | MetLife | Raytheon Aircraft | Sallie Mae | Texas Legislative Council | U.S. Navy | United Health Group | University of Colorado | Wells Fargo| Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Customer Quote

Boeing Satellite Systems (Hughes Space and Communications) says:

"...Boeing chose to use PCL2PDF to simplify the process of converting datasheets to PDF for a number of reasons. Programming costs far exceeded the cost of the product. Datasheets require extensive validation, that would not be needed if we continued to use the same software programs. Vaulted versions of reports could be re-released in PDF format without a formal engineering review for accuracy. These datasheets are a set of complex reports with numerous formatting complexities to compact data that once took tens of thousands of pages into a set of reports that now take only 1100-1400 pages. By converting them to PDF we can carry them into meetings and on travel to remote locations with the aid of a CD or floppy disk in many cases. Furthermore, we can publish these reports internally on our web site for adhoc access from our many remote offices..."

Christopher Myers, Hughes Space and Communications

Here's a brief list of what's new in V6.9:

Support for user specified temporary file directory using -TEMP:"..." switch

Implemented new -IFF switch to suppress blank page generation on form feed when no data on page

Implemented 24-bit RGB PCL colour support, in conjunction with LBM Systems' AXIAR Imaging, with opacity and transparency and within macros

New -PC switch for print copies, -PS and -PE for print range start and end and -PM for PDF Print Settings

Implemented “IBM DOS” style line and box drawing character support

Implemented Euro character in HP 9N and 13U symbol sets

Implemented right and centre justified text printing using HP-GL/2 LO command

Implemented “white text” printing

Implemented PCL raster graphics “mode 5” adaptive compression

Implemented various PCL code fixes and enhancements

Improved PCL duplex paper handling support

Improved PCL “offset registration” support, including for 90 degree rotated portrait pages

Improved HP-GL/2 support

Developed using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Command line and developer versions available for batch, unattended use

Windows, Unix, Linux, OpenVMS, AS/400, HP3000 and Tandem versions available.

Pcl2pdf for Windows PC (including Visual PDF) and Server PCL2PDF for Windows includes command line .EXE, Windows .DLL and ActiveX .OCX components. These components are available for use on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 2003 and 2008 Server. If you wish to convert PCL print files to PDF at the Windows command prompt (console) you can use the PCL2PDF 32-bit PC command line .EXE pcl2pdf32.exe. Pcl2pdf32.exe can be run direct from the Windows command prompt (console) like:

C> Pcl2pdf32 test.pcl test.pdf

Please contact us to see the PCL2PDF V6.9 User Guide for full details of the command line switches available. For developers wishing to use PCL2PDF with their own applications and programming environments the following PCL2PDF developer files can be downloaded and installed. These include the PCL2PDF 32-bit Windows .DLL pcl2pdf32.dll, pcl2pdf32.lib, Pcl2pdfDevLib.ocx and Pcl2pdfDevLib.tlb. The Windows .DLL must be installed also for use with the .OCX. Please see the PCL2PDF Developer API section of the User Guide for installation and usage instructions. The PCL2PDF .DLL and .OCX developer components can be used with C, C++, Visual Basic, FoxPro and Delphi applications. They can also be used with web based Active Server Pages (ASP) applications on Microsoft Internet Information Server. Which PCL2PDF component you use depends on the application you are developing, the development environment and language you prefer to work with.

PCL2PDF Enhanced

PCL2PDF Enhanced is an upgrade to PCL2PDF. PCL2PDF Enhanced offers users the ability to: