pclbox for unix?

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mschwartz

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Hi all,
I'm on HP-UX Progress 10.1B. We want to print boxes on some of our progress forms. I discovered through another thread the existence of lib/pclbox, but cannot find anything on the web about it, or if there is a unix version. Anybody have a clue about this?
Thanks!
Mike Schwartz
 
The HP website should have all sorts of documentation on PCL and you can embed the control codes into your print stream without too much trouble.

But you probably don't really want to do that. You will be binding your output to HP PCL capable printers and you will be hard-coding that stuff in your output. And the fancier it gets the messier it gets. Plus it won't work very well if you ever need to run it under Windows (the Windows print model is unspeakably ugly compared to UNIX).

You're probably better off investigating something more portable like PDFInclude which you can find at OEHive.
 
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