A direct PCL to PS conversion is dirty and mangled. You may or may not get exactly the same results between the two on their respective hardware. Ghostscript is free and will do a good job, for a huge range of conversions on *nix or Windows. I highly recommend using it to get your initial design and testing done for the documents. If you want to pay for a shrink wrapped package, then make sure you know exactly what you are getting out of it. Send the vendor some sample PCL and have them e-mail you the PS/PDF results. A custom PCL<>PS filter is usually employed and everyone writes theirs differently. You may be surprised at the quality drop when you convert a raster based PCL document into a vector based EPS/PS/PDF document. I've been fighting that battle myself for years, converting our old PCL docs into PS/PDF. I've gotten most of our documents stored as HTML templates and EPS images now. html2ps converts them over to PS and I let ghostscript generate PDFs when I need an e-mail or portable file.
Glen http://mvdevcentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curt > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] pcl to pdf converter > > > I have a customer that prints invoices on an HP Laserjet justing PCL. Now > they want to email the invoices as a PDF file. Does anyone have a > suggestion as to a reliable and reasonably priced product that will convert > a file containing PCL to a PDF under Universe currently on NT4, but shortly > on Win2k3. > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
