(OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Fairlight wrote:

> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Campbell done said:
> > 
> > My reason for wanting to go from PCL to PDF is to process plain text output
> > with printer control codes to set pitch to something other than the
> > default, then turn convert this to something viewable by people who don't
> > have smart dumb terminals that can display more than 80 characters.
> 
> I have a nuts idea...I don't know enough about PDF to know if it's even
> feasible -at all-.  But...  Someone once told me they use the printer code
> table to generate different things than print codes.  HTML was their one
> example.  Is it possible to make a PDF printer code table wherein you can
> directly format it in PDF language to begin with, just by using a different
> printer definition?

Not possible. PDF is more structured, including an index at the end that 
tells where to find various elements in the file.

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