(OT) Open source PCL to PDF converters?

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>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Bill Campbell shouted:
> >LaTeX for the win!  I miss using that, after a fashion.  THE best
> >non-professional typesetting available, though.
> 
> Donald Knuth would take exception to your saying that anything TeX was non-
> professional :-).  One can produce far more professional looking output
> using TeX and its derivatives than using something like Microsoft Word.  I
> don't have my copy of the TeXbook handy, but didn't he say that his goal
> was to produce pretty books?

Don't remember.  I know LaTeX has the best kerning in the business.  I was
admitting the possibility that professional printing firmst might actually
be able to do it slightly better.  But you're quite right in that Word and
all the rest don't even come close.

> There's no problem with ps2pdf.  That's a standard part of ghostscript.  I
> don't want to have to turn formatted ascii text into PostScript in order to
> create PDF.  I already have something that looks fine when printed on an HP
> LaserJet compatible printer.  Why should I have to go 'round the barn to
> get PDF?

Same reason I've had to jump four formats to get from one image format to
another with netpbm; there's no direct translator.

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