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6 pnmtopclxl - convert a PNM image to an HP LaserJet PCL XL printer
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11 pnmtopclxl
12 { [-dpi=N] [-xoffs=N] [-yoffs=N] [-center] [-duplex={vertical|horizon‐
14 tal}] [-format=paperformat] [-feeder=N] [-copies=N] [-rendergray]
15 [-jobsetup=filename]
16 | -embedded
18 } [-colorok] pnmfile1 pnmfile2 ...
20 Minimum unique abbreviation of option is acceptable. You may use dou‐
22 ble hyphens instead of single hyphen to denote options. You may use
23 white space in place of the equals sign to separate an option name from
24 its value.
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29 This program is part of Netpbm(1).
30 pnmtopclxl reads one or more PNM input streams, each containing one or
32 more PNM images, and generates a sequence of output pages in the HP
33 PCL-XL (formerly named PCL 6) printer control language. You can send
34 this stream to a PCL-XL printer to print the images.
35 Alternatively, you can make pnmtopclxl generate just the PCL-XL
37 instructions to print an image, which you can embed in your own PCL-XL
38 stream to place an image on one of your pages. (-embedded option).
39 If the input is PPM, the output is a color printer stream (the PCL
41 color space is RGB). Otherwise, the output is grayscale (the PCL color
42 space is grayscale). If you want a grayscale output from a color
43 input, run your input through ppmtopgm(1). See the -colorok option for
44 more information about choosing between color and grayscale.
45 The output goes to Standard Output. All of the pages go to one file,
47 concatenated in the same order as the input images.
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52 -dpi=N This option selects the resolution of the image (not the
53 printer!). N is the resolution in dots per inch, from 1 to
54 65535. The default is 300.
55 -xoffs=N
58 This option and -yoffs determine the location on the page of the
59 upper left corner of each image. Note that the image may have
60 built in borders too, which would make the main image within
61 more left and down that what you specify here.
62 -xoffs and -yoffs specify the distance from the left of the page
64 and from the top of the page, respectively, in inches, of the
65 upper left corner of the image. The default for each is zero.
66 These options are meaningless if you specify -center.
68 -yoffs N
71 See -xoffs.
72 -center
75 This option tells pnmtopclxl to center each image on the page.
76 If you don't specify this option, the position of an image on
77 the page is determined by -xoffs and -yoffs (or their defaults).
78 -duplex={vertical|horizontal}
81 This option causes pnmtopclxl to create a printer stream that
82 prints pages on both sides of the sheet of paper. vertical
83 means to print them so that the left edge of both pages is on
84 the same edge of the sheet, while horizontal means the more
85 usual duplexing where the top of both pages is on the same edge
86 of the sheet.
87 -format=paperformat
90 This option selects the media (e.g. paper size) that the printer
91 control stream specifies. paperformat is one of the following
92 self-explanatory keywords:
93 · letter
97 · legal
99 · a3
101 · a4
103 · a5
105 · a6
107 · jb4
109 · jb5
111 · jb6
113 · exec
115 · ledger
117 · b5envelope
119 · c5envelope
121 · com10envelope
123 · monarchenvelope
125 · dlenvelope
127 · jpostcard
129 · jdoublepostcard
131 The default is letter.
134 -feeder=N
137 This options selects the media source (e.g. paper tray) that the
138 printer control stream specifies.
139 -copies=N
142 This option specifies the number of copies that the printer con‐
143 trol stream tells the printer to print.
144 -rendergray
147 This option causes pnmtopclxl to include in the output stream a
148 command to set the RENDERMODE environment variable to GRAYSCALE,
149 which typically causes the printer to print in grayscale regard‐
150 less of the colors in the input, and may cause it to run much
151 faster even if the image is grayscale anyway.
152 This option was new in Netpbm 10.29 (August 2005).
154 -jobsetup=filename
157 This option causes pnmtopclxl to include arbitrary job setup PJL
158 commands at the beginning of the output stream. It reads them
159 from the named file.
160 pnmtopclxl does not inspect these commands in any way, but it
162 does expect them to be job setup commands. If you have garbage
163 in your file, you will hear from the printer.
164 This option was new in Netpbm 10.29 (August 2005).
166 -colorok
169 This option simply tells pnmtopclxl not to warn you if you sup‐
170 ply a color input and therefore get color output. By default,
171 pnmtopclxl issues a warning any time it produces a color printer
172 stream because it is usually a mistake. It's a mistake because
173 PCL XL is mainly used for laser printers, and laser printers are
174 mainly black and white. If you send a color print stream to a
175 black and white printer, it typically refuses to print anything,
176 and even if it manages to convert it to black and white and
177 print it, it takes 3 times as long to transmit a color stream to
178 the printer than to transmit the grayscale image that gives the
179 same result.
180 -embedded
183 Without this option, pnmtopclxl generates an entire printer con‐
184 trol stream that sets up the printer, ejects pages, and places a
185 lone image on each page. With the option, pnmtopclxl generates
186 only the instructions to generate the image itself. This is not
187 useful all by itself, but you can embed it in a suitable PCL-XL
188 stream in order to add an image to it.
189 This makes sense only for a single image, so you cannot specify
191 multiple input files and if an input file has multiple images in
192 it, pnmtopclxl ignores any after the first (it won't even read
193 them).
194 All the options that control the printer control stream outside
196 the image itself, such as -xoffs and -feeder are invalid with
197 -embedded.
198 This option was new in Netpbm 10.54 (March 2011).
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206 ppmtolj(1), pbmtolj(1), ppmtopj(1), ppmtopjxl(1), thinkjettopbm(1),
207 ppm(1)
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211 pnmtopclxl was added to Netpbm in Release 10.6 (July 2002). It was
212 contributed by Jochen Karrer.
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215 This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML
216 source. The master documentation is at
217 http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pnmtopclxl.html
219netpbm documentation 22 March 2011 Pnmtopclxl User Manual(0)