From: Boon van der RJ Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Anyone have code to strip text from HP-PCL5 files? Date: 19 Oct 1998 13:20:57 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 17 Message-ID: <70febp$jo$1@star.cs.vu.nl> References: <36258305 DOT 18274931 AT news3 DOT banet DOT net> <705drn$k84 AT jupiter DOT planet DOT net> <3626885a DOT 2179579 AT news3 DOT banet DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sloep62.cs.vu.nl User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980730 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.5.1 (sun4m)) Originator: rjvdboon AT sloep62 DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Peter J. Farley III wrote: > I can see the text I want to extract when I browse the file, but there > is a *LOT* of binary stuff and what looks like font information in > between chunks of text. > I guess I'll go to one of the HP forums and ask around there. > Thanks again for your code. It may well come in handy one day! I might be too simplistic, but maybe a 'strings yourPCLfile.pcl' does the trick well enough. (You might have tried it already of course) The HP-forum could be better ;-) bye now, Robert -- rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl | "En dat is niet waar!" sprak ex-Staatsecretaris- www.cs.vu.nl/~rjvdboon | van-Onderwijs Netelenbos fel.