Hi there,

Could someone tell me if it's safe to edit PCL(Printer Command Language) files in Windows? I've a bunch of PCL files to edit and each PCL file is different when it comes to the header part. So, I'm not able to figure out a standard simple way to edit these files. I use regular expressions to find a string and replace it with the value I want. When I try to replace more strings, things get messed up and the document cannot be read. Something goes wrong with the special characters though I'm not trying to edit them.

Could someone throw few pointers on this one? Are there better ways of doing this? This would help me a lot.


Thanks,
Thilak

In reply to How to edit a PCL file by GoForIt

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