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I have an application that prints by generating text files with embedded printer codes, then basically just copies the file to the printer to print. I need to take that print file and convert it to an image – just as if it was printed then scanned.
My first thought was to setup a printer with a postscript printer driver attached to a file port, and then run the result through ghostscript to create a tiff, but it isn’t working.
Any ideas?
The printer codes are probably PCL. Maybe pcl-parser could serve as a start for your own tool to do this? There also seems to be a commercial product called PCLXForm.
Edit: Also investigate GhostPCL.