PCL5 and PCL6 to PDF Converter

Today the PDF file format is widely used to generate portable documents.

By converting the PCL - Printer Command Language  data stream (5 and 6, color and mono)  into the PDF format, ELP is able to archive and/or PreView any document in PDF format, as well to send it by e-mail or Fax.

The Rule assistant offers therefore easy to use menus or just check button to activate it.

The supplied PDF converter adds in unlicensed mode a watermark on every PDF page. The converter must be licensed per server in order to get rid of the watermark. W-ELP usually needs the SND module license in order to be able to bypass the spool file to the PDF converter.

There are some parameters which do control the PDF conversion and those are controlled in the config file PDFConf.ini which resided in the Workpath (e.g. C:\ProgramData\Welp) by the key PDFPara=. The default settings (not PDF/A) are:

-p1.3 --pdftitle "Automatic created by ELP www.stethos.com" --pdfauthor "www.stethos.com"

The PDFConf.ini file can be edited and the conversion process is controlled per process in the corresponding sections which must not be renamed. As mentioned in the file the section [Default] will be used one the corresponding section is not found in the file:

These parameters can be edited in the above file:

Hints:

• If the PDF converter arguments given by the PDFConf.ini are not suitable for all conversion processes it's possible to use the Key PDF_Arguments which allows a workflow specific conversion process. Please note that the supplied arguments are additive to the default arguments supplied in the PDFConf.ini.
• We also supply the file PDFConf.ori in the Workpath which is just a static backup copy or the original conversion settings from the W-ELP installer.
• Customers who purchased the PDF Converter prior to 2024 are able to switch to the legacy version of the PDF Converter upon request.