What Can Affect the Nature and Composition of PCL Print Streams

There are many variables that can affect the nature and composition of today’s PCL print streams. Once a PCL transformation process is up and running, please be aware of some of the many pitfalls that can break them. The PCL generated from different HP printer drivers can vary in the following ways: There are HP [...]

Bitmap font and scalable typeface conversion

The FastFont Bitmap Font generator (FBM) will convert TrueType scalable typefaces into FastFont format and then allow you to scale the FastFont to any point size for HP download bitmap fonts (SFP/SFL). This is a developer level product – ask for pricing. TTF2SFP will convert TrueType fonts into HP download bitmap fonts (SFP/SFL). This is [...]

Linux, Unix, Solaris and other Non-Windows Platforms

The platform where the transformation takes place is not as important as having an output file with 100% font fidelity, an index, individual PDF files for each document in a multi-document file, searchable text or other very important and overlooked transformation capabilities.  If you have very simple PCL, the PCL transformation products that run on [...]