PRO PCL to PDF
PRO PCL to PDF dynamically converts documents from HP-PCL print files into standard Portable Document Format (PDF) files for use with browsers such as Adobe's Acrobat® Reader.
Crawford's PRO PCL to PDF transformation product adds usage flexibility.
PRO PCL to PDF provides customers with a way to also move their PCL printing applications to the Internet or to archival/retrieval environments without making costly application changes.
Superior font management is the key to providing a successful print transform product and PRO PCL to PDF provides the utmost ease of use for font utilization.
Standard PCL fonts are automatically mapped to standard Acrobat fonts. Custom bitmap fonts are automatically converted to PDF fonts.
PRO PCL to PDF has the flexibility to map fonts to either standard PostScript/PDF Type 1 fonts or embedded Type 1 fonts for a clean look.
PDF overlays can be used to emulate pre-printed form stock. This allows easy creation of watermarks allowing the full power of PDF to be utilized within legacy applications.
This approach can be used to add full color graphics, web site links, java scripts and much more.
With PRO PCL to PDF, any data in the print file can be used in Bookmarks and automatically organized into multiple levels for easy navigation.
Index rules can be set up allowing indexing on multiple criteria. PRO PCL to PDF uses object-to-object transformation rather than object-to-bitmap transforms.
This approach produces a PDF file optimized (including compression of all resources) for viewing and printing.
PRO PCL to PDF can also be used by Web-based applications to convert PCL files to PDF dynamically at retrieval time.
The high-speed performance of PRO PCL to PDF permits this dynamic conversion. This form of Web implementation saves significant data storage costs and costly batch transformation processing time.
