Generating a PCL file from PDF file

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Mon Apr 4 22:41:19 UTC 2005


Gregory P. Ennis writes:

> Everyone,
> 
> I have one last remaining Microsoft function that I would like to
> transfer to my Linux system.  Once this is done I will most likely be
> able to turn off my Microsoft system or better yet put a Fedora Core $
> on it.  
> 
> I need to be able to create a PCL file out of a Word, PDF, or other file
> type.  What I have done with Windows XP is to  print the file to a PCL
> printer like a HP4si.  To Create the PCL file all I have to do is to
> check the text file box on the print menu.  When this is done Windows
> captures the print stream to a file instead of sending it to the
> printer.
> 
> The reason I need to do this is to create PCL macros that can be
> downloaded to a PCL printer.  I am sure there is an easy way to do this
> in Fedora Core 3 but I have not figured it out yet.  Your help would be
> appreciated.

You can use pdf2ps to convert the PDF file to Postscript, then you can use 
ghostscript to convert Postscript to a PCL file.

Ghostscript is a bit of a pain to use, but once you have it worked out the 
right options, the process will go smoothly.

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