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convert.exe fails when converting file.ps to file.pcl

Please help

UPDATE:

the command I'm trying is

convert doretree.ps doretree.pcl

So the oldest working version I could find was ImageMagick-6.4.9-6-Q16-windows-dll. From 6.5.0 the command fails with an unexpected windows error.

The same happens when converting tiff to pcl. Has anyone had the same issue? Else can someone please confirm that its working?

Download the latest release of ImageMagick, 6.6.9-1. Now try

• convert doretree.tif doretree.pcl

If that fails, try

• convert doretree.tif -compress none doretree.pcl

If that fails, post a URL to your image so we can download it and reproduce the problem.

Hi,

Thanks for the help. When using 6.6.9-1 the results are the same:

convert 001.tif 001.pcl


convert 001.tif -compress none 001.pcl
Magick: 001.tif: unknown field with tag 59932 (0xea1c) encountered. `TIFFReadDirectory' @ warning/tiff.c/TIFFWarnings/706.

The tif file can be downloaded here:
http://app02.oztechnologies.co.za/001.tif

There appears to be a bug with delta-compression. We'll have a patch in the next point release of ImageMagick. However, -compress one works for us. We get a PCL result that can display with pcl6 from GhostPCL.

Thanks, the conversion works now. However when converting this postscript file:



using the command i get this:



the scale is fine (the images are screen captures) but you'll see the pcl font is "choppy". Any idea why?

I'm on 6.6.9-6 using gs 9.00

Try this command:

• convert -density 400 in.ps -resize 25% in.pcl

Hi, thanks for the help. I tried the command but it didn't work. Its looking for an argument for density:
so I tried
This works perfectly! Thank you very very much.

I've been trying all along but it kept resizing the output. Can't believe it was something so small.