Creating a printer emulator to capture PDL/PCL data coming in on port 9100.


 
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Old 01-22-2010
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Originally Posted by jgt
I would start by creating a PCL printer that prints to disk, then examine the disk file created to see if there is anything useful in it. I don't think you will find anything like a text file with one or two escape sequences at the beginning of it. You may be better off if you can create a generic/text only printer.
I already linked to a pcl2text utility.
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xdbedizzy(1)						      General Commands Manual						      xdbedizzy(1)

NAME
xdbedizzy - demo of DBE creating a double buffered spinning scene SYNOPSIS
xdbedizzy [-display host:dpy] [-delta dlt] [-class visclass] [-depth visdepth] [-visid visualid] [-list] [-nodb] [-help] [-speed number] [-sync] [-spokes n] [-verbose] xdbedizzy [-print] [-printer printername] [-printfile file] [-delta dlt] [-class visclass] [-depth visdepth] [-visid visualid] [-list] [-nodb] [-help] [-sync] [-spokes n] [-verbose] DESCRIPTION
xdbedizzy is a demo of DBE creating a double buffered spinning scene. OPTIONS
-display host:dpy This option specifies the X server to contact. -print Switches to printer output (default is video output). If no other printer arguments are given the default printer is being used. -printer printername This option specifies the Xprint printer to contact. -printfile filename Redirects the PDL (Printer Desktoption Language, usually Postscript, PDF, PCL, etc.) stream to the specified file. -numpages count Number of pages to print. Default is 5. -delta dlt Delta value used to rotate the scene for each frame (video output) or page (printer output). -class visclass Name of visual to choose. Valid values are TrueColor, DirectColor, PseudoColor, StaticColor, Grayscale, StaticGray -depth depth Depth of visual to use. -visid visualid Visual ID to use (ignore -class, -depth). -list List double buffer capable visuals. -nodb Single buffer (ignore -class, -depth, -visid). -help Prints usage and exists. -speed value Defines the time to delay between frames as delay=2sec/speed. Default value is 20. This option is ignored in print mode. -sync Use synchronous X connection. -spokes value Specify number of spokes to draw. The default value is 12. -verbose Print verbose output. SEE ALSO
DBE(3), XdbeSwapBuffers(3), XdbeGetVisualInfo(3), XdbeAllocateBackBufferName(3), X(7), Xprint(7), Xserver(1) ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY DISPLAY must be set to get the default host and display to use. XPSERVERLIST XPSERVERLIST must be set for the -printer option identifying the available Xprint servers. See Xprint(7) for more details. AUTHOR
Mark Kilgard Allen Leinwand Roland Mainz 20 October 2004 xdbedizzy(1)