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PDF to PCL

hi all,

i would like to know if there are any tools in unix (sun solaris 8) to convert PDF files to PCL format (i.e, .prn files)

i want to convert around 3000 files (in a batch) to PCL format files. can anyone help me out with this.

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I think you should be able to use ghostscript for this..

I'm sure you'll have to toy with some other options.. however, this is basically where you'll be working from:

Code:

gs -sOutputFile=newfile.pcl oldfile.pdf

I've never tried it though.

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