My read of their website leads me to believe that you still need to have
purchased a copy of Adobe Distiller in order to perform the conversion (i.e.
their PCL interpreter/viewer makes the Windows GDI calls, but you still need
a PDF print driver on the other side of those calls to create the PDF).
This would make porting unfeasible.  OTOH, I'd love to see someone port
Ghostscript to the HP3000 :).

As mentioned previously, there unfortunately isn't a "no cost" solution.  If
time & effort are not considered a "cost", you might consider writing
PostScript or PDF directly.  PostScript isn't that hard to learn, you can
pick up books on it in any good bookstore, however, it would still have to
be distilled in order to get PDF.  I have no first hand knowledge of PDF,
but my understanding is that PDF is considerably harder to generate than
PostScript because it's optimized for reading rather than creation.

Rob
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Date:    Tue, 20 Oct 1998 17:12:34 -0400
From:    John Zoltak <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Spoolfiles and PDF format

List Members,

I also have been looking at PDF solutions and just today came across a
site http://www.pcltools.com that has a PCL to PDF converter including
source. This might be something useful to port. I'm going to seriously
look at this.

John Zoltak
North American Mfg Co