Obviously PrintCapture can do everything for everybody. What are its limitations?
PrintCapture is a printer emulator and a plotter emulator and it was originally designed to work with CRT-based test instruments. As a result the PCL (Printer Control Language), HPGL/2 (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language), and Epson ESC/P Control Code commands that are processed are subsets of the available commands. We keep adding more command processing to make PrintCapture more and more compatible with CRT-based and PC-based test instruments. The data files that PrintCapture processes must be pure PCL or HPGL/2 commands – we haven’t implemented processing of data files that contain both PCL and HPGL/2 commands. This isn’t as big a drawback as it sounds. Most logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and digital oscilloscopes that we have seen ‘print’ either PCL or HPGL/2 data, but not both at the same time. The HPGL/2 command processing implemented so far seems to work well with HPGL and HPGL/2 compatible test instruments.
PrintCapture is a printer emulator and a plotter emulator and it was originally designed to work with CRT-based test instruments. As a result the PCL (Printer Control Language), HPGL/2 (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language), and Epson ESC/P Control Code commands that are processed are subsets of the available commands. We keep adding more command processing to make PrintCapture more and more compatible with CRT-based and PC-based test instruments. The data files that PrintCapture processes must be pure PCL or HPGL/2 commands – we haven’t implemented processing of data files that contain both PCL and HPGL/2 commands. This isn’t as big a drawback as it sounds. Most logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and digital oscilloscopes that we have seen ‘print’ either PCL or HPGL/2 data, but not both at the same time. The HPGL/2 command processing implemented so far seems to work well with HPGL and HPGL/2 compatible test instruments. This includes both CRT-based and PC-based digital oscilloscopes, s
