[Info-vax] DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) Translator module development guidelines

[RobertsonEricW]

On Aug 20, 2:47 pm, Paul Anderson <paulrander... at charter.net> wrote:
> In article
> <df030471-86e0-4f37-9ce4-8015ef4ef... at v41g2000yqv.googlegroups.com>,
>
>  RobertsonEricW <robertsoner... at netzero.net> wrote:
> > Does anybody here know anything about development guidelines for
> > writing DCPS translator modules for different electronic document
> > formats?
>
> > Thanks in advance for any wisdom.
>
> In my years of supporting and engineering DCPS, this is the first time
> I've heard that question asked.
>
> The existing translators haven't been meaningfully changed in years.
> IIRC there were a couple of ANSI and one PCL translator bug fixed since
> 1997.
>
> I know of no publicly-available document that would describe the
> requirements to build a new translator.  I'm not even sure I had one
> when I worked on DCPS.
>
> Pray tell, what format are you looking to translate?  It wouldn't be
> PDF, would it?
>
> Paul

Thanks for your response! Open Document Format is what I was after.
This is the document format for documents produced through OpenOffice
tools.

Eric