Split PCL, Count PCL & Extract PCL from Your Printstreams

PageTech is the leading PCL software development company that provides custom, fast and extensible solutions for applications requiring the manipulation, optimization, transformation or re-purposing of PCL print streams.

PageTech's PCLSplit.exe Utility

PCLSplit.exe is a multi-function, multi-purpose collection of functions to split, extract, normalize (see note below) or count PCL print file pages. PCLSplit.exe is included in every configuration of PCLTool SDK. And, it also comes with the PCLWorks. However, it's source code is provided only with PCLTool SDK (Option I).

PCLSplit Utility is actually a sample program to show some of PageTech's transformation, text search, PCL page extraction/normalization and page counting capabilities. PCLSplit.exe calls various API functions in the custom programming version of PCLTool SDK (Option I only).

For those customers with more complex print streams than what PCLSplit can handle, we recommend PCLXform (PCLTool SDK Option V) with a custom steamediting .tpt script. If PCLSplit.exe does not perform the file splitting functions you require, send your zipped PCL files along with your requirements for a Free Analysis, Recommendation and Quotation.

If we can't split your PCL No one Can!

PCLSplit.exe Function:

• Extracts and normalizes pages from a large input PCL file into smaller PCL files based on the page ranges specified.
• Splits PCL files by a change in a Keyword (ie. Invoice #) specified in a runtime-provided Index-By-Location (.IBL) file.
• Counts the number of pages in a PCL file, then can split the file by the page count specified.
• Splits PCL files into single pages and serializes the output PCL filenames.
• Displays the total number of pages had hits for the keyword specified.

In cases where PCLSplit does not meet your specific requirements or where PCL compatibilities need to be worked through, we have the following options:

• Customize PCLSplit - you can do this with PCLTool SDK (Option I) or based on your specifications, PageTech's engineers provide a fixed RFQ for whatever you need to accomplish.
• Custom PCLXForm - .TPT script program - you can do with PCLTool SDK (Option V) or or based on your specifications, PageTech's engineers provide a fixed RFQ for whatever you need to accomplish.

Note: Normalization means adding all the environment variables including the current state of download bitmap or scalable fonts, macros, etc. to the beginning of the first page of the next section of the split PCL file. If you are fortunate enough to have very simple PCL where each page contains all the information it needs to be rendered properly, then almost no normalization needs to take place.

However, the more efficient and complex your PCL, the more difficult it is to keep track of the current state of the printer and encapsulate the overlays, temporary download bitmap/scalable fonts, etc. into PCL that can be prepended to the first page of the next section of the split PCL file. We were the first normalize complex PCL in 1995 and remain the best at this difficult task.

An important note to remember - Other vendors sell must less capable PCL file splitting technologies starting at $5,000. PageTech's PCLSplit.exe is available from $89 to $995 and our specialty is customization to meet your specific requirements.

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