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> Has anyone run across a tool that allows the design of forms or page
> attributes on a PC, and then converts the form into PCL5 code, stored in
> a byte stream file?  The byte stream file could then be loaded onto the
> HP3000.  With the ability to use byte stream files as enviornment files
> as of MPE\ix 5.5, this would be a very useful tool.  It would sure be
> easier than writing the PCL code in an editor, as the enviornment files
> seem to not allow any documentation of what you are doing.
>

Around here we just use a word processor to design the form and then print to a
file the code for whatever printer we want.  Unfortuantely, a word processor
will add extra code in which we don't want--form feeds, for instance.  So I
wrote a couple of quick perl scripts which translate control codes to something
printable and back.  I translate the files, read through them, taking out stuff
I don't want in there and then translate them back.  It's actually a fairly
decent process.  It's been a while since I needed to do that, but I'd be glad
to look up the scripts and give you a copy if you wish.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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