Postscript is a fully-fledged programming language and offers and extraordinary level of flexibility in the printing process. If you want to convert pcl to postscript and set page size, you’d better find a tool to assist you. PCL Converter command line actually is your nice choice. Because it enables you finish the task effortlessly.
The first step—Downloading&Installing
- click the link to open https://www.verypdf.com/pcltools/index.html
- go to VeryPDF PCL Converter command line
- press “Download” and save file
During the installing process, you are bound to see below window box
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The second step—Launching
You are bound to launch MS-DOS command prompt window. Because the command line is bound to be operated under the MS-DOS environment. The procedure is easy, and the following pictures will guide you.
Press “start”>choose “Run”>input “cmd”>press “ok”
When the following appears, you will have the MS-DOS command prompt window
The third step—Inputting
Input command line to convert pcl to postscript and set page size, it goes below
pcltool.exe -width 800 -height 600 C:\in.pcl C:\out.postscript
where
- C:\in.pcl is to specify a pcl filename or a directory for input,
- C:\out.postscript is to specify the postscript file name for output.
- width 800 -height 600 is to set page size width to 800 and height to 600.
Once the input is done, press “enter” key, you will see,
here “result=ok” means the program has gone through.
The fourth step—Checking
open the file to check if the pcl file has been converted to postscript file
And please open the file in a computer with a postscript reader to check the page size.