How to put PCL comments?

[martincab]

Anybody knows how can i put PCL comments inside an ascii file?. I mean like c comments: /* comment */

Thanks in advance.

Martin

 

[jlasman]

The only "legal" way that I can think of is jump to HP-GL/2 and use the comment command there. For example ...

pcltxt pcltxt<esc>%0B CO &quot;This is a comment&quot;;<esc>%0A

The comment must be in quotes. When you return from the comment the cursor should be in the same location it was before the operation began. Make sure the &quot;;&quot; semicolon precedes the <esc>%0A




Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[martincab]

Thanks a lot!

i will use it to make &quot;ESC/P READY&quot; pcl ascii files.

Martin

 

[jlasman]

That comment would print if you sent the file to an epson printer.

Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[martincab]

You're right. Normally the files will be printed on a PCL printer, but once in a while, the file will be printed to an epson printer. In this case the file will be converted to esc/p with awk. To do this the esc/p commands will be put inside the pcl comments and awk command will remove the pcl commands (comments included) and thus we will obtain an ESCP file .

Thanks for the tip.
Martin Cabrera

 

[jlasman]

Excellent Smithers!

Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[martincab]

¿Simpson Smithers?

 

[jlasman]

D'oh! ;-)

Jim Asman
jlasman@telus.net

 

[martincab]

Eh, eh, eh, exactly sir.

Martin Cabrera
Oracle DBA/Programmer

 

[pagetech]

You can make a macro with text in it and then don't execute it.

You can make the text in 12pt printer resident Courier, but as &quot;reverse&quot; or white text.

You can embed a numeric value using an undocumented Esc(s#Z escape.

There is a HIDETEXT.PCL file in the .\scripts\hidetext folder of the PCLTool SDK demo at

http://www.pcltools.com.

The PCLCodes program that is included in the demo is probably the most useful tool you could use to debug the PCL that you are generating. And, PCLTool program saves paper in not having to print everything to test it out. You can view it on the screen instead.