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Hi,

I'm using 6.4.1-Q16 binary version, and I'm not able to convert a PCL format file to any other format e.g. JPG, PNG, etc.

Here is the error I'm getting:
convert: `%s': %s "pcl6.exe" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dEPSCrop -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "
-sDEVICE=pnmraw" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g612x792 "-sOutputFile=C:/DOCUME~1/ewong/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-KLGCLxim" "C:/DOCUME~1/ewong/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-UxUdzsUM".
convert: PCL delegate failed `image.pcl'.
convert: missing an image filename `image.png'.

Any idea?

Thanks!
Eunice

Strange behavior if you are using a binary install.

type:

convert -list configure

to see what image delegates are installed. Look for the line something like this in mine:


DELEGATES bzlib fontconfig freetype gs jpeg jp2 lcms lqr openexr png tiff x11 xml zlib

Unless this has changed, IM needs pcl6 to convert pcl to anything. This application can be found in the GhostPCl installation.

This is what I have:

DELEGATES bzlib freetype jpeg jp2 lcms png tiff x11 xml wmf zlib

But I think missing pcl6 is my main problem. I'll install that and try again.

Thanks much!

ImageMagick supports delegate libraries and programs. Only delegate libraries show up in the DELEGATES tag for the identify -list command. For delegate programs, add -verbose to the convert command and it will display the command ImageMagick is using to process your image files (e.g. image.pcl). The PCL image format requires the PCL program. For Windows, as you have seen, it wants pcl6.exe in your execution path.