Re(3): Joining pcl and jpg in Gimp.

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*	From: Gary Dale <garydale@rogers.com>
*	Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:07:31 -0400
> Have you tried OpenPCL Viewer?

peter@dalton:~/Downloads$ java -jar openpclviewer-installer.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit
   at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.10)
   at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.initialize(libgcj.so.10)
   at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(libgcj.so.10)
   at javax.swing.UIManager.<clinit>(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
   at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.loadLookAndFeel(Unknown Source)
   at com.izforge.izpack.installer.GUIInstaller.<init>(Unknown Source)
   at java.lang.Class.newInstance(libgcj.so.10)
   at com.izforge.izpack.installer.Installer.main(Unknown Source)
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgtkpeer: libgtkpeer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
   at java.lang.Runtime._load(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.10)
   at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit.<clinit>(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.10)
   at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.10)
   ...8 more
   
 Appears that AWT toolkit or something containing that must be installed.
   
*	From: <noelamac@gmail.com>
*	Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 09:28:43 +0000 (UTC)
> ... use a tool to convert the pcl file into something more 
> manageable, like PostScript or PDF.  ... GhostPDL (binary 
> is "pspcl6") ...

peter@dalton:~/ghostpdl-9.05$ make pcl
cd ./gs/tiff && ./configure --disable-jbig
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
  ...
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/peter/ghostpdl-9.05/main'
gcc -O2 -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-proto
types -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wno-strict-aliasing -fno-builtin -fno-com
mon @HAVE_MKSTEMP@ @HAVE_SSE2@ @HAVE_BSWAP32@ @HAVE_BYTESWAP_H@ @HAVE_SYS_TIME_H
@ -DHAVE_STDINT_H -DGX_COLOR_INDEX_TYPE="unsigned long"  -DPCL_INCLUDED  -I../gs
/base -o ./obj/aux/genconf ../gs/base/genconf.c
gcc: @HAVE_MKSTEMP@: No such file or directory
gcc: @HAVE_SSE2@: No such file or directory
gcc: @HAVE_BSWAP32@: No such file or directory
gcc: @HAVE_BYTESWAP_H@: No such file or directory
gcc: @HAVE_SYS_TIME_H@: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [obj/aux/genconf] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/ghostpdl-9.05/main'
make[1]: *** [pdl-product] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/peter/ghostpdl-9.05/main'
make: *** [pcl] Error 2

Thoroughly opaque to me.

At that point I chose to position the drawing on the printer 
output by binary search (euphemism for trial and error).
Then print the drawing.  Then scan it with Gimp.  Inelegant 
but done.

A skilled draughtsman of a century ago would have put my 
efforts to shame by a factor of 10 or 100!

Thanks for the ideas,       ... Peter E.

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