There's a utility on Linux called enscript that I once used to convert a text
file to Postscript. It converted all the PCL escape sequences with it
unfortunately. They would show up as something like "\13\10" but it did work.

Assuming you want to convert PCL to PS/PDF, the only method I have found is to
either use a commercial product to convert it, or write your own program to
convert the PCL that "you" use in your reports. Writing a basic converter for
simple reports that are generated on the 3000 would be pretty simple.
Generally only 4-5 fonts are used and no graphics (not including environment
files of course) are in our reports so it wouldn't be much work.

Once you have your report in Postscript, it seems that you can do virtually
anything with it using open source software. For example, once you have valid
Postscript, you can use the open source hylafax server to fax the document,
Ghostscript and ImageMagick to convert it to every other imaginable format,
and alot of graphics programs can open Postscript files and include them in a
document.

Of course only a certain amount of this can be done on MPE, but having
Ghostscript available is a big step.

-Pete

On October 15, 2002 06:59 am, Lars Appel wrote:
> Me wrote:
> > Well, with a few quick and dirty hacks, it seems to build on
> > MPE/iX... However, I have zero experience with it, so cannot
> > get far beyond running gs -v and gs -h without help...
>
> Okay, I managed to run it in such a way to convert some of the
> supplied Postscript files to PDF as well as JPEG format using
> commands similar to...
>
> shell/iX> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
>
> > -sOutputFile=alphabet.pdf alphabet.ps
>
> shell/iX> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg \
>
> > -sOutputFile=alphabet.jpeg alphabet.ps
>
> shell/iX> ls -l alpha*
> -rw-r--r--   1 APPEL.ORG         ORG       116046 Oct 15 12:50
> alphabet.jpeg -rw-r--r--   1 APPEL.ORG         ORG        13767 Oct 15
> 12:50 alphabet.pdf -rw-r--r--   1 APPEL.ORG         ORG         1551 Oct 15
> 12:49 alphabet.ps
>
> Seemed to work for examples like escher.ps or waterfal.ps or grayalph.ps
> as well. Could view the PDF and JPEG files from a PC using my Samba share.
>
> However, I still fail to see how Ghostscript could help with with text
> to PDF printing on MPE/iX. Can anybody enlighten me? Or was the wish for
> Ghostscript on MPE/iX not quite the right wish in this regard?
>
> Lars.
>
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