Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:31:07 +1100 (EST) From: Steve the teco <steve@red.hot.net.au> To: Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw1@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing escape chr (printer) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001127122436.1932A-100000@red.hot.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3A1D3D65.7A93451@home.com>
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Hi All and thanks for the pointers, but I still have a few problems. my new perl script gets rid of the PCL code but I loose the FORMAT.(spacing) I'm using in my script s/\033.*?[A-Z]//g; anybody got a PCL to text or PCL to html program ? Thanks for all the help to date. Steve. On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Joel Mc Graw wrote: > Steve the teco wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have about 200 files to convert to plain text or better still html. > > > > The problem is the text is full of printer codes > > <SNIP> > > ^[^[&a8R^[^[&f0S^[^[&a4C^[^[&f0S^[*c2221A^[*c95B^[*c15G^[*c2P^[*c4A^[*c1852B^[*c0P^[*c2221A^[*c4B^[*c0P^[*p+59Y^[*p > > +200X^[^[(s0p10h0s3b4099TPROJECT > > COST^[*p+330X^[*p-20Y^[^[(s0p17h0s3b4099T1999^[*p+40Y^[*p-85XActual^[*p-40Y^[*p+70 > > X2000^[*p+40Y^[*p-89XBudget^[*p-40Y^[^[&f0S > > </SNIP> > > > > Do I need a port or something to clean up this mess. > > > > hope someone can help. > > > > Thanks for your time. > > > > Steve Hutson. > > > > Steve, > > These appear to be PCL codes--which is HP's printer control language > (kinda like PostScript). Notice that they appear to always begin with > an escape character and end with a capital letter. > > Using this info, writing a program/script to remove the codes should be > fairly trivial. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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