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