for printing our invoices I have build up workflow which creates several PDF and PCL-files from
the input which comes from an IBM AS/400, in form of a spool file.
Such a spool-file can contain only one invoice or several invoices, so I get one PDF for each invoice,
which are merged together to finally one PDF-File.
My question now is, can I merge the PCL-files in the same way as the pdf-files?
We need all invoices in one PCL-file to be sent to the printer, so that the printjob can excecute as one.
At the moment I see that the generated PDF-Files are only copied to the filestore folder, and not to the folder defined in the output-preset (create output is set to “as definded by output preset” and not “over workflow”). In the created PDF-File are only the path and filename of the generated PDF-Files. When I open this path I see all this files with the correct content. Have I forgotten to set an option, that these files are copied to the destination folder, so that I can merge them to one file?
This problem is solved now
I got answer from support in germany, they said, that is not possible to merge this single pcl files to one.
But what can I do to solve this problem?
I could create postscript output, that would not be a big problem, but can I then merge the postscript files, for getting one sinlge output-file, or is there an other way?
Theses invoices should be sent as one job to the printer, otherwise the printer would creates one job for every invoice.
You could convert your individual PCL files to PDF, You can use the All-In-One to achieve this if you have a PCL Input license. Then merge all PDFs using a Alambic Edit API script or the Merge PDF Files Input plugin.
You should then end uop with a single PDF, containing all the individual PDFs files, which you may then enhance in a new datamapper\template to generate a single PCL or PS or even PDF output.
I think the main problem are the printer control commands in the pcl-files. I create pdf-files in the same process and merge them together, that works, so that I got all invoices in one pdf-file.
Now I have deactivated the “separation” in the print options for PCL, and after that, the result was a single PCL-file. I don´t know if this file is correct, but at the first look, it seems to be ok.
