Re: Need to read a .pjl
04-06-2017 04:19 AM – edited 04-06-2017 04:26 AM
>> … I had no luck with the PCL Paraphenlia tool
The purpose of the PRN File Analyse tool is to ‚decode‘ the content of a print file – but the analysis will only be meaningful if you have some understanding of the (in this case PCL XL) Page Description Language being used.
It doesn’t show a display of what the printed page would look like – for that, use something like SwiftView, or Lincoln, or PCLWorks.
By the way, the reason that the OpenPCL viewer did not work is that that application only understands (a rather old version of) PCL5 – it does not support PCL6 (a.k.a. PCL XL).
Did you also try the PRN File Print tool, to ’send‘ the content of the file to a suitable (PCL6 supporting) target printer?
>> … I have used notepad++ to add the esc characters properly
i don’t understand what you mean by this, since the file already appears (from what you’ve posted so far) to be a ‚complete‘ print job.
Nothing needs to be added to it, and doing so will almost certainly corrupt it.
>> … If possible, could I send this file to you to have a look at?
By all means send a copy of the file to me, via the support mailbox ‚at‘ pclparaphernalia.eu
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