Turning a PJL to a PCL macro

[Reed_I]

But I thought he fixed it in sig.pcl...no?

Reed

[dansdaduk]

>> ... The orientation of the signature was presumably determined by how the sheet was oriented when you scanned it ...

You could presumably use the -R option in mkpcl to change this, when generating the PCL macro from the original image?

[Jim_Asman]

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@Reed_I wrote:

But I thought he fixed it in sig.pcl...no?

Presumably, but that is the code you would have to change to relocate the signature.

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[dansdaduk]

>> ... But I thought he fixed it in sig.pcl...no? ...

If you are referring to the positioning of the signature, I noted:

• An attempt is made to set the PCL cursor position, but because the sequence is incorrect (the 'root' should be <Esc>*p) this will be ignored (it doesn't affect the 'extra page ' problem, but it will  affect the position of the signature.

But I did not change this (and this error is in form.pcl (and the modified version form_x01.pcl), not sig.pcl anyway.

sig.pcl defines the raster image (within a macro) but does not itself include any positional information; so when the macro is executed, the position will be relative to the current cursor position in the calling print job.

[Reed_I]

That's right...I didn't touch sig.pcl.  I modified form_x01.pcl by adding <esc>*p625x500Y and other x,Y values with no change in the output.  I put the *p at the biginning after &f2y2X, then at the end, before <esc>E.

Reed

[Reed_I]

I think it's all good now, guys!  I used the -R option with mkpcl, and now the positioning works too 🙂

Thank you both VERY much for holding my hand through this learning experience...No way I couldn've done this by myself!

Reed

[dansdaduk]

>> ... I modified form_x01.pcl by adding <esc>*p625x500Y and other x,Y values with no change in the output.  I put the *p at the biginning after &f2y2X, then at the end, before <esc>E ...

The <Esc>*p625x500Y sequence should be before the <Esc>&f2y2X sequence (which executes the macro) not after it.

in fact all you need to do is to correct the erroneous <Esc>*625x500Y sequence (already before the macro execute sequences) to insert the missing 'p' after the '*' character.

I've no idea why you also want to put it at the end to set a cursor position just before the end of the job.

[dansdaduk]

>> ... Thank you both VERY much for holding my hand through this learning experience...No way I couldn've done this by myself! ...

You're welcome.

Keep at it, and in time you'll be able to advise others!

[dansdaduk]

... by the way; your form.pcl job (and the derived variants) contains two other errors (at offsets 2173 and 2571 in the original file) where you have 'orphan' partial sequences of <Esc>* which are both followed immediately by the a <Esc> character at the start of a new (valid) sequence.

From the analysis file:

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0000002142   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>&a4080v      Cursor Position Vertical   (4080 decipoints)
0000002150                                 3960H      Cursor Position Horizontal (3960 decipoints)
0000002155   Data                                     return to service.
             *** Warning ***                          <Esc> found before termination of next sequence
0000002173   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>*            ***** Unknown sequence *****
0000002175   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>&a4290v      Cursor Position Vertical   (4290 decipoints)
0000002183                                 144H       Cursor Position Horizontal (144 decipoints)
0000002187   Data                                     13b. Authorized Signature:

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0000002539   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>&a6120H      Cursor Position Horizontal (6120 decipoints)
0000002547   Data                                     14e. Date (dd/mmm/yyyy):
             *** Warning ***                          <Esc> found before termination of next sequence
0000002571   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>*            ***** Unknown sequence *****
0000002573   PCL Parameterised      <Esc>&a4920v      Cursor Position Vertical   (4920 decipoints)
0000002581                                 144H       Cursor Position Horizontal (144 decipoints)
0000002585   Data                                     It is important to understand that the existence of 

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[Reed_I]

I'm far from advising others, but thank you for your words of encouragement 🙂