Re^3: How to edit a PCL file

I was trying to understand where these PCL files are coming from, and what you want to change.

Say you were using an application, for example Microsoft Word to create documents and save them as PCL files (you can setup a 'dummy' printer driver to output a pcl file to a certain directory. In such a scenario I'd prefer to make the changes you need in the source word document by automating it via Win32::OLE. This solution is easier to maintain, PCL has various version (1-6), PCL files aren't as easy to edit as a text/Word/PDF file.

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Re^4: How to edit a PCL file by GoForIt (Novice) on Apr 01, 2010 at 14:05 UTC
These are electronic documents created by the HP printer because the documents mentions the X and Y co-ordinates for cursor position before the actual data that needs to be printed on page. The files I've is PCL version 5. Again, %-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL, this means that this is a version 5 PCL file.	[reply]
Re^5: How to edit a PCL file by GoForIt (Novice) on Apr 05, 2010 at 06:30 UTC
These documents are created by a virtual printer. Instead of printing these documents on paper, these files are converted as .pcl files.	[reply]
Re^6: How to edit a PCL file by marto (Cardinal) on Apr 05, 2010 at 06:52 UTC
Isn't that what I mentioned here?	[reply]
Re^7: How to edit a PCL file by GoForIt (Novice) on Apr 05, 2010 at 07:24 UTC
Re^5: How to edit a PCL file by mikelieman (Friar) on Apr 05, 2010 at 14:08 UTC
Can this virtual printer produce a pdf. Editing PDFs is pretty well understood.	[reply]