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Viewer Projects Developers Contact Welcome We are proud to launch OpenPCL. This is an effort to provide the community with quality open source PCL tools including a free open source PCL viewer (OpenPCLViewer) that can be used immediately to view, paginate & print PCL Level 5 (HP LaserJet III 1990 standard) file. What is PCL? PCL is an acronym for Printer Control Language and is a page description language developed by HP as a printer protocol. Read more at Wikipedia OpenPCLViewer The first open source PCL Viewer released by OpenPCL. Supports PCL Level 5 (HP LaserJet III, circa 1990). Runs on Windows PCs, Macintosh, UNIX, Linux. Open PCL files on any mapped drive, or from a URL that points to a PCL file. You can open up to 9 PCL files in MDI frames that you can tile and cascade. See on screen the different pages of a multi page PCL file by clicking on the different page nodes in the tree on the left (or arrow up/down, or click the next/previous toolbar buttons). A toolbar button shows/hides the tree. Each PCL file you open has its own navigation tree. Print All/Selected/Remaining pages to any of your current installed printers. Zoom width is automatic upon file open, and tile/cascade, and when the view frame width changes, and when you show or hide the pages tree, and if you click the toolbar zoom width button. You can zoom in/out by clicking the "Show/Hide Zoom Slider" button on the toolbar, and on the popup zoom slider you can either click the direct zoom buttons, or drag the zoom slider pointer left or right. Also there are zoom in/out buttons on the toolbar. Each PCL file on screen has its own zoom independent of the others, and the zoom width button on the toolbar always shows the current zoom factor of the last clicked on view Other PCL Viewer Projects PageTech PCLReader - Free (but not open source), Windows Only SwiftView/eLynx Viewer - Commercial (not free) Verydoc PCL Toolkit - Commercial (not free) Lincoln & Co LDV & PageView - Commercial (not free) Projects The OpenPCL project is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpcl OpenPCLViewer The first open source PCL Viewer. Read more about it here. PclRenderImage This is the non-UI component that parses and draws the PCL which OpenPCLViewer puts on the screen. Alternately, PclRenderImage.jar can be on your server backend and called from your Java code as a non-UI engine to convert PCL bytes that can come from a database or from files on the server, into a java.awt.image.BufferedImage. The Java code that you write can save the image for viewing later, or can subclass PclRenderImage to reuse the PCL parsing but get code control in your Java code to draw to other image formats like JPG, PNG, TIFF, PDF instead of making the BufferedImage. Developers OpenPCLViewer has been designed to be embedded into your external Java Swing app anywhere you want to put it, or run as a Java Applet on your web page because it’s a subclass of a JPanel instead of a JFrame. Both the openpcl.jar and pclrenderimage.jar files have public API methods that you can call to control everything it can do. Optionally the default toolbar can be hidden but this means your external app’s UI code needs to have the menu items and toolbar buttons that have action listeners that call the API methods to control everything. If desired, instead of opening a PCL file, a byte array of PCL that came from a database can be passed to an API method that returns the image to show on the screen. You can directly use the non UI based pclrenderimage.jar file to render the image from passed in PCL bytes and you can put the image that it returns on the screen in your own JPanel without using the UI based openpcl.jar file at all. License OpenPCL releases all projects under the GNU Lesser GNU General Public License Sourceforge Project http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpcl Documentation API Contact We are very excited to hear from you about this project and how you are using it as an end user or as a developer. For questions, comments or to contribute, please send email to: openpcl@docmagic.com Note that your questions and comments sent to openpcl@docmagic.com, and answers back to you, we may post on the OpenPCL SourceForge forum as publicly readable so that everyone can benefit from the information, or instead of eMailing to openpcl@docmagic.com, you can go to one of the below 3 links and post your question directly on the OpenPCL SourceForge forum. This will require you to create a SourceForge login using your eMail address and a password to post on the forum. Developers: Discussions regarding extending/modifying the software. Help: Discussions regarding downloading/using the software. Open Discussion: Discussions regarding future directions/wishlists and more. Download OpenPCL Viewer Now! v0.09 Jan 28 2009 for Windows Download OpenPCL Viewer Now! v0.09 01/28/09 for Mac/Linux Requires Java JRE 1.5 Run as WebStart (no local install) Requires Java JRE 1.5 Run Viewer in an Applet in your default browser. JAR Installer (JDK 1.5) Sample PCL File (20 pages) Download source Home | OpenPCLViewer | Projects | Developer | Contact Copyright 2009 OpenPCL. Sponsored by DocMagic,...