pcl2pdf or something

[Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

vmeier@digicomp.ch writes:
 > Hello
 > 
 > i've been trying to convert PCL code (text) to a PS or PDF file.
 > i've used aps2file, but it's not interpreting the PCL code. instead it just
 > converts the text as plain text into a pdf.
 > anyone has an idea how i could convert PCL code into a PDF with apsfilter
 > or with another tool?

I'd be very, very surprised if there were any tool available that
would do that.  PS and PDF are both document interchange formats; PCL
is a low-level printer control language specific to HP.  So there are
several tools that would convert to PCL (as the last step in
printing); hanging on to a PCL file to convert it back to PS or PDF
would be very unusual.

You mention it's text; do you mean you've got a file with a lot of
text and just a little control codes?  In that case, I'd probably go
in with Emacs to extract the text by hand.
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