Timothy Betz asks:

> Is there any way to take a spoolfile and convert it to PDF format with
>  existing utilities or freeware?

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a modified version of PostScript code
(actually an underlying layer of PostScript brought to the surface), so you'd
first have to take your spoolfile and convert it to PostScript.

That isn't difficult if you don't want it to look like anything much other
than a $STDLIST output -- or, of course, if the spoolfile is already in
PostScript format (although there are very few PostScript generating programs
on the HP3000; QueryCalc is the only one that I'm aware of).

But the real rub occurs in that there is no PostScript-to-PDF "distiller"
program native to the HP3000. You would have to download the file to either a
PC, Mac or UNIX box and then run it through an Adobe Acrobat distiller. When
done, you have a PDF file that can then be served up by pretty much any
machine you wish, including an HP3000.

Wirt Atmar