[cups.general] PCL to CUPS to PDF

[alet at librelogiciel.com]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:46:50AM -0800, Dmitriy wrote:
> I have a PDF printer set up on a Linux box through CUPS and available via the network via LP (port 515).
>
> I'm trying to have a remote host, that runs a proprietary application designed to print to PCL supporting printers, print to this Linux box, and for the jobs to come out as PDFs. So far, the jobs come through fine, but the PCL codes do not get interpreted correctly. Meaning that I'm not getting the correct fonts or form feeds, just the codes printing out as part of the "text".
>
> Is there a way to have the print jobs go through some sort of PCL
> supporting driver before going to PDF?

you could capture and post process your PCL files with ghostpcl (now
ghostpdl IIRC) to generate PostScript and then PDF (or even PDF
directly, I don't remember).

tools like tea4cups (http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups/) could
help you with this.

bye

Jerome Alet