fedora-list Digest, Vol 9, Issue 269

[Hegge, Johnathan]

> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:34:01 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: PCL5 to PDF
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Message-ID: <200411181534.PAA27481 at mirror.barumtrading.co.uk>
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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.