Marc Champagne wrote:
> 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

The latest version is actually "ghostpdl". I've recently RPM bundled it for
RHEL, and would be happy to test it under SCO OpenServer 5.0.x and send notes
to Brian's website....