Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:34:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jonathan Allen <jonathan(a)barumtrading.co.uk>
Subject: Re: PCL5 to PDF
To: fedora-list(a)redhat.com
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After I asked:
> > What's the best way (in Fedora, of course) to turn a PCL5
print stream
> > into a PDF document ?
Brian Richardson said:
> I think that CUPS-PDF should help you.
>
http://cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/
Thank you for the suggestion. However, that seems to be a
Postscript->PDF
virtual printer, and doesn't seem to know anything about HP's
PCL5. I have
a mixed stream of plain text and fully coded PCL5 which I
need to try and
present as a PDF document.
Did I misunderstand ?
Jonathan
Ghostscript can convert a PCL stream to PDF, via Postscript. If it's
been captured from a printer, it may still be wrapped in PJL, which I
don't believe it can remove. Print to a file and you'll drop the PJL
wrapper.