> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:34:01 +0000 (GMT) > From: Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: PCL5 to PDF > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <200411181534.PAA27481@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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.
