(OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Campbell" <bill at celestial.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: (OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?


> 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.

Before I put a set of binaries up on my public web site, and before I made 
it a required heavily used part of all our installations, basically a 
required part of our software, I emailed them and was told it's ok to 
redistribute. The only unusual requirement is the source must always 
actually be included right in any distrribution or package or media. And "On 
the same web page" does not count as being part of the same distribution 
media. So any tar or package must include the source as well as the bins.
Other requirements are standard, such as you can't remove their names and 
credits from the source.

I'm pretty sure I kept that email but it's on a different box. Or, the whole 
conversation might have taken place on the publicly archived mail list for 
ghostpcl.

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