Use Ghostscript to convert PCL to PostScript
So I want to use Ghostscript to convert files that are created in PCL format to PostScript.
That's the gist of my problem. I am simply trying to run it on the command line, but in the final stage it will have to be run on a lp command like lp -d < gs something something
GPL Ghostscript 9.00 (2010-09-14) I will be running this on a Solaris 10 server but I believe any Unix system should work similar.
bash-3.00# /usr/local/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pswrite -dLanguageLevel=1 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=output.ps cms-form.pcl
GPL Ghostscript 9.00 (2010-09-14)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Error: /undefined in &k2G-210z100u0l6d0e63fa0V
Operand stack:
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1910 1 3 %oparray_pop 1909 1 3 %oparray_pop 1893 1 3 %oparray_pop 1787 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1154/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:77/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Current file position is 30
GPL Ghostscript 9.00: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
Answer
You are using Ghostscript (gs), which cannot read-in and interprete PCL.
You should use from GhostPDL the component that interpretes PCL: the executable is called pspcl6.
Then a command like
pspcl6 ^
-o out.pdf ^
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite ^
in.pcl
should convert your PCL to PDF. For PostScript Level 2 use -sDEVICE=ps2write.
However, it may be difficult to find pre-compiled binaries of pspcl6. It's not well known, despite it being part of the Ghostscript family of products. You may need to build + compile your own version from the sources.
Update: