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This page is a brief online user guide of PCL to Image Converter Shell for Mac. It contains 3 parts:

Download

Please download tar.gz of PCL to Image Converter Shell for Mac and extract it to your computer then you can run it in Terminal

Type command line

In Terminal, first, enter the directory where the pcl2image is saved. Then input the command according to the usage. The basic usage of PCL to Image Shell for Mac shows as follow:
Usage: pcl2image -i <integer> -o <output file> [option]
This command line can be used to covert PCL, PNM, PXL, SPL "<input file>" to an output image of JPG, JP2, TIFF, BMP, PNG etc. "<output file>" of specified properties "[option]" with one final click on "enter" in terminal.

Supported options

PCL to Image Converter Shell for Mac supports these options below:
Options:

 
   -i -i <string>: Specify input file, mandatory
   -o -i <string>: Specify output file name, mandatory
   -gw <integer>: Set width of final image in pixel optionally
   -gh <integer>: Set height of final image in pixel optionally
   -r <h>x<v>: Set resolution in DPI optionally
   -b <integer>: Set color depth with number 1, 8 or 24 optionally
   -c <integer>: Set compression method for TIFF optionally
     -c 0: Create TIFF file without compression
     -c 1: Compress TIFF using packbits arithmetic
     -c 2: Compress TIFF using Lempel-Ziv-Welch-1
     -c 3: Compress TIFF using Lempel-Ziv-Welch-2
     -c 4: Compress TIFF using CCITT Group 3 (1 D)
     -c 5: Compress TIFF using CCITT Group 3 (2 D)
     -c 6: Compress TIFF using CCITT Group 4
     -c 7: Compress TIFF using ZIP
  -faxtif <integer>: Convert normal TIFF to fax TIFF, optional
     -faxtif 0: Y Resolution = 98.
     -faxtif 1: Y Resolution = 196.
  -$ -i <string>: Register this application

Note:

1. "-c 3" is invalid when "-b 1" is used.
2. "-c 4", "5" or "6" is invalid when "-b 8" is used.
3. only "-c 0", "1" or "-c 7" can be used when "-b 24" is used.
4. "-b 1" is invalid for JPEG output.