PCLTool Form Conversion SDK.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1996--Page Technology Marketing Inc. (PageTech) has released V4.0 of its PCLTool Form Conversion SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). . PCLTool is an industry-exclusive dynamic link library A set of program routines that can be called at runtime as needed. See DLL. dynamic link library - Dynamically Linked Library (.DLL (1) See data link layer. (2) (Dynamic Link Library) An executable program module in Windows that performs one or more functions at runtime. DLLs are not launched by the user; they are called for by an executable program or by other DLLs. ) that converts HP PCL (Printer Command Language) The page description language for HP LaserJet printers. It has become a de facto standard used in many printers and typesetters. PCL Level 5, introduced with the LaserJet III in 1990, also supports Compugraphic's Intellifont scalable fonts. 5 print files composed of text, font, linedraw and raster data into bitmap (.PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , .TIF, et al.) or vector (.WMF) format files with metrically matching TrueType(tm) fonts for those used to create the PCL print file. The PCLTool SDK Solution: -- View/Overlay PCL documents on the screen. -- Archive PCL print jobs such as reports and invoices for COLD storage, on-line retrieval and viewing and/or printing to any device. -- Migrate PCL forms into DOS/Windows applications. -- Generate fax documents from PCL print files to get the highest-quality fax output possible. PCLTool is unique in the fact that it uses its own internal font engine to rasterize To prepare a page for display or printing. Rasterization is performed by a raster image processor (RIP), which turns text and images into the matrix of pixels (bitmap) that will be displayed on screen or printed on the page. Various conversions may take place. fonts "on the fly" to create bitmap files (PCX, TIF, etc.) at various resolutions. Various forms of this printer and font technology are used in Intuit's TurboTax(r), Avery's LabelPro(r) and SoftKey's PFS:Write(r). PageTech PCLTool comes with a sample application program that exercises all the functions of both the DLL's provided. PTCNVRT.DLL does the conversion from the source PCL file into the target file format and creates a placable plac·a·ble adj. Easily calmed or pacified; tolerant. [Middle English, agreeable, from Old French, from Latin pl and device independent file. PTVIEWER.DLL can either preview the converted file on the screen, overlay other files or print it to the current Windows printer driver. PageTech specializes in easy-to-integrate HP PCL print file, form conversion technology. For additional information, contact Robert Pooley at PageTech(sm) at 10671 Roselle Street, Suite 100, San Diego, Calif. 92121-1525. Phone: 619/658-0191. Fax: 619/658-0194. Web Page: http://www.tfb.com/pagetech/ . E-mail: pagetech@tfb.com CONTACT: Page Technology Marketing Inc., San Diego Robert Pooley, 619/658-0191 |
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