Hi! Please find attatched ghostpcl-1.41.ebuild and a patch so that it compiles on amd64. ghostpcl is a suite of utilities/scripts for viewing Windows PCL print files and converting to PDF. Commercial PCL viewers/converters are relatively expensive (~$1500) considering that foomatic can do the reverse conversion of ps/pdf to PCL. The viewer is crude (it displays one page at a time and waits for a carriage return to display the next), but the pcl2pdf script is more useful for converting the Windows print files to a format readable by kpdf or acroread. ghostpcl comes bundled with urwfonts but I've elected instead to add a dependency on urw-fonts (mainly because the crude Makefile installs the urwfonts into /windows/fonts). ghostpcl provides some useful shell scripts in its tools directory and I've installed some but not all of them. pcl6 is the workhorse program for displaying/converting pcl files. Some type of pcl to pdf converter is becoming a necessity because of the fast growing trend of, for example, mortgage banking companies posting loan documents in pcl format on WebPostServers instead of FedEx-ing the documents. The banks save printing costs and FedEx costs and bypass the security/size restrictions of email. Windows recipients get their loan docs faster. Linux recipients have a major hurdle. They need to have a printer which understands pcl and they need to set up a raw spool for it. And they need to print the actual document, which could be 100s of pages long, or run at least one Windows machine, just to see it. To complicate matters further, each mortgage company seems to choose a different WPS, each with its own proprietary WindowsXP unzip/print program. I've literally had to install more than a dozen proprietary unzip/pcl-print programs. It's ridiculous. Most of the loan docs can however be unzipped with gnu unzip, unless an encryption password is part of the downloaded program. Hence the need for a linux pcl viewer/converter. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 65716 [details] ghostpcl-1.41.ebuild
Created attachment 65717 [details, diff] patch1
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97422 ***
