The application PCL to TIFF Converter Shell for Debian is a powerful application which can run on any Linux system for converting the print file of PCL, PRN, PXL and SPL to TIFF format image. So if you don't have any handy program for opening these print file on your Debian Linux system, to convert them into TIFF format image will be a good choice because TIFF can be
opened by many kinds of image viewer or processer.
To use the application PCL to TIFF Converter Shell for Debian, you need to download it at first. After you unpack the packed package of the application, you can instantly run it. The application supplies two kinds of licenses. If you want to run it on a server, you can purchase the server license. If you want to embed or redistribute the app in your developed program, you need to buy the developer license.
Please open the term on your Debian system for inputting commands into it. The commands you can refer to is the following one:
./pcl2tiff -i <input file> -o <output file> [option]
The meaning of the commands template is to use the program pcl2tiff to convert the input file (PCL, PXL, PRN or SPL) to the target file TIFF format image and you can set different parameters for the target file at the same time.
To apply the template, you can see the following commands example:
/pcl2tiff –i ./PCL/test-file.pcl –o ./IMG/test-file.tiff –gh 568 – b 8
Where
./pcl2tiff stands for the called program which is the executable file pcl2tiff in
unpacked folder of the application. –i with ./PCL/test-file.pcl is the path of input PCL document. –o ./IMG/test-file.tiff is the specified output TIFF image path. –gh 568 is to set TIFF height as 568 pixel. – b 8 is for generating 8-bit TIFF image.
If you have inputted done all the commands in the term, you can hit "Enter" button on the keyboard to run the conversion from PCL to TIFF at once. When you get the target file several seconds later, the operations are over.