On Mar 11, 6:01*pm, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 Mar, 20:46, Jeff Hyman <scol...@cactus.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Jean-Pierre Radley typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:11:27PM -0400):
> > | Marc Champagne typed (on Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 02:17:07PM -0500):
> > | | Jeff Hyman <scol...@cactus.com> wrote in news:20080311162905.GA29238
> > | | @lonestar.cactus.com:
> > | |
> > | | > Here's a quickie,
> > | | >
> > | | > * *Is there a command or filter that can take ascii output and
> > | | > put it into a PDF format?
> > | | >
> > | | > TIA,
> > | | > - Jeff H
> > | |
> > | | I have been using linut's ghostpcl for many years to convert text and/or
> > | | pcl to pdf quite succesfully.
> > | |
> > | |http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/
> > | |
> > |
> > | When did it become owned by linut?
> > |
> > | While I mentioned sanface' software in my prior response, I forgot that I
> > | use pcl6 far more often, and it's free.
> > | JP
>
> > Before I continue digging, which would you think is my best bet? *
> > I have downloaded 'txt2pdf-9.5' from sanface. *It says it has a
> > 30 day fre evaluation period, but:
>
> > # txt2pdf.pl
>
> > returns a licensing violation error:
>
> > This is an UNREGISTERED version of $producer1.
> > Registration fee is $39 for the Personal Edition.>From $130 for the Enterprise Edition.
>
> > Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at
> > $SECURESERVER
> > or contact $companyname $SANFACEmail
>
> > so much for the eval :-(
>
> > Is pcl6 easy to get my hands on?
>
> > - Jeff H
>
> Ghostscript. Numerous open source and commercial products use it quite
> graciously, including HylaFAX (which is available for SCO as well).


Ghostscript is still available on the Skunkworks site. Only problem I
had when I tried it a few years ago was a substantial performance hit
on the system. That may have been an earlier version.

Mark