Richard Seeder <aapex@att.net> wrote in
news:36slt3pg5lonks836vn5khgjo5robj23ko@4ax.com:

> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:17:07 -0500, Marc Champagne
> <garbage.bin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Jeff Hyman <scolist@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/
>>
>>Marc
>
>
> I use this, too, quite successfully. The only trick to it is that the
> pcl6 output tends to be quite large; to make it manageable, I run the
> pcl6 output back through ghostscript with the DEVICE=pdfwrite option,
> which produces a much more manageable file size.
>
> --
>
> Richard Seeder

Hmm, very interesting, will give that a look-see.

Marc