PCL Emulation Requirements : JetPCL Service Provider

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“FaxAgent uses JetPCL to convert LaserJet PCL content into fax ready images....With sample code fragments and a simple/limited set of distribution files, we were up and running within a few days. ...JetPCL is without doubt the fastest and most reliable rendering engine in our product.”

Nick Basil - Director of Product Development
Axacore, Inc.
San Diego, CA, USA

JetPCL^® Service Provider : requirements

JetPCL Service Provider is available with a variety of feature options depending on what you need. All features are controllable with various switch options. The following is a list of available platforms, emulation levels, and input/output formats supported. Which features are activated in your product will depend on licensing.

Platforms:

Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista (basically all Win32 platforms)
Linux x86 (RedHat including Enterprise Linux 3 and compatible)
UNIX Sun Solaris x86
UNIX Sun Solaris Sparc
UNIX IBM AIX
UNIX HP HP-UX
UNIX DEC Alpha
UNIX SCO UnixWare
UNIX SCO OpenServer
BSD
Free BSD
Open BSD

Other platforms may be available upon request.

Emulation levels:

LaserJet 5 (PCL-5e with TrueType and HP-GL/2 support)
LaserJet 5 with support for additional non-western typefaces such as: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic.
LaserJet 6 (PCL-6 with TrueType, HP-GL/2 and PCL-XL support)

Some PCL escape codes are not currently supported. Some are unrelated to document imaging, while others are not commonly used in the field.

Output formats:

Adobe PDF (readable by any of the Acrobat products)
TIFF Class-F (this is a very common file format for Faxing or Archiving)
CCITT T.6 (standard Group 4 Fax data compression)
CCITT T.4 (standard Group 3 Fax data compression)
Standard DCX (this is basically a multi page PCX file)
Standard PCX (one page per file)
Standard BMP (one page per file)
HP-PCL (output that is ready for sending to a PCL printer)
Postscript (output that is ready for sending to a Postscript printer) Output image resolution is available in 200, 300 or 600 dpi.

Input formats:

HP-PCL (input that has data ready for sending to a PCL printer)
TIFF Class-F (this is a very common Fax file format)
CCITT T.6 (standard Group 4 FAX formats)
CCITT T.4 (standard Group 3 FAX formats)
Standard DCX (this is basically a multi page PCX file)
Standard PCX (one page per file)
Standard BMP (one page per file)

Input formats are limited to appropriate image sizes, monochrome color and supported compression methods. Generally speaking, JetPCL will accept as input the same type of files as it produces as output.

JetPCL System Requirements:

Storage:

3.25 Mb minimum disk space for the JetPCL executable and data files.

Execution:

Between 3 and 6 Mb of memory during execution depending on the output dpi requested. This is configurable using the -b switch. If memory is not available a disk based swap file will be used.

Data files:

JetPCL uses and creates support files to perform its functions. By default JetPCL uses the following support files:
- JETPCL.CFG - Configuration file
- JETPCL.CTL - Control file
- MT\*.* files - Microtype and TrueType typeface files
- SFT\*.SFT files - Softfont files
- MAC\*.MAC files - Macro files
- PAT\*.PAT files - Pattern files
- SYM\*.SYM files - Symbol Set files
- SYM\*.TRN files - Text Translation files

These figures are general and might vary among platforms and feature sets. Also, some of these are optional and might be discarded in situations that have limited resources and require a smaller footprint.