existence of "pcl2text"??

[Henry Spencer]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> > Does anyone know whether a "pcl2text" utility exists? ...
> 
> There is no such thing. PCL does not include any text characters if the
> printout was graphical.

And the same is true of PostScript, but nevertheless it is *usually*
possible to extract the text from PostScript.  Most PCL output has text
as characters, not as graphics.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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