Virtual Printer Port?

Kurt Jaeger pi at freebsd.org
Sat Jul 28 21:15:50 UTC 2018


Hi!

> This may be off topic, but does anyone know a port or configuration for 
> FreeBSD that can listen on a serial port and spit out a PDF?  I have a 
> piece of hardware (a hospital-grade pulse oximeter) that's able to talk to 
> an *original* HP Thinkjet with a serial port and produce graphical charts. 

If you can catch one of those printout files, check the
contents of it.

Maybe GhostPCL or GhostPDL can work with that.

https://www.ghostscript.com/GhostPCL.html

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