(OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Sun Mar 11 20:55:04 PST 2007


On Sun, Mar 11, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Bill Campbell propounded (on Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 05:07:57PM -0700):
>| Does anyone here know of any open source PCL to PDF conversion
>| programs?  A google search comes up with a fair number of
>| commercial options.
>
>GhostPCL.  The source code is an abomination (it sticks things in /,
>unless you hack it as I have done), but the resulting pcl6 binary comes
>with a few shell wrappers like pcl2pdf, pcl2ps...

I'll have to take a look at that.  Hacking bad installation
setups is pretty normal.  The license looks a bit iffy.

Bill
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