On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:52:41 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folks. > > I've been handed a .prn file to try and read. > > Running "file" on it gives me the following result > > $ file Output.prn > Output.prn: HP Printer Job Language data
A google search for pcl2ps revealed this: Perl script pcl2ps Also at http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/ps/pcl2ps Script /usr/local/bin/pcl2ps converts a simple PCL file and shows the text or the PostScript translation. Unsuitable for anything but the simplest text files: ignores most PCL commands (including graphics and fancy fonts), only extracts any plain-text. At least it knows about all (?) PCL commands and most HP-GL commands; can also be used as an HP-GL debugger. If you have graphics, then may want to check out http://www-wisconsin.cern.ch/~lishka/progs/lj2ps/lj2ps_intro.html (also in comp.sources.misc/volume13) and/or http://ftp.ru.xemacs.org/pub/graphics/hp2pbm-pl3.tar.Z (also in comp.sources.misc/volume26). Maybe the best is GhostPCL from http://www.artifex.com/downloads/. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
