Adding to what Lars said, there is also a OpenSource PDF tool.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/

The concept, setup a network PDF printer.

Some assembly required, and batteries not included.

Mike.


Quoting "Lars Appel" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Jack Connor wrote:
>> What would be the recommendation for a tool to convert MPE spoofles  
>> to PDFs that would then be FTP'd down to a WinTel environment?
>
> With the target being a WinTel system... I wonder if it might make  
> sense to configure
> a "dummy" network printer on MPE/iX and have it send spooler output  
> to a little socket
> listener on the WinTel system (similar to the FakeLP example from  
> the 3000-L archive)
> and then invoke GhostPCL on the Windows side for generating the PDF output.
>
> The "dummy" network printer would let the MPE spooler take care of  
> the PCL conversion
> and also perform the "file transfer" automagically. The GhostPCL  
> software is probably
> easier to get (or build / update) on Windows than on MPE (okay... I  
> admit that it did
> also build on MPE long ago ;-)
>
> Lars.
>
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