Converting PCL bitmaps to PDF?

In article <idbdcs$7nr$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
D Yuniskis  <not.going.to.be@seen.com> wrote:
>Hi Peter,
>
>[long sea, no thyme]
>
>Peter wrote:
>> I am trying to get a presentable hard copy from Orcad SDT/386 which
>> can be emailed etc to people.
>
><frown>  I suspect you *don't* mean "hard copy" (since it is
>awfully hard to *E*mail).  Rather, some "portable document
>format" that your recipients are likely to be able to
>"print"/view, locally...
>
>> I have PLOTALL working, and outputting in postscript, all fine, and by
>> importing the .ps file into say Corel Draw I get a fine schematic.
>>
>> Except the fonts are useless.
>
>Do you know if the font problem is associated with Corel's presentation
>of the PS file?  Or, are they botched in the original document (which
>corel is reproducing faithfully)?
>
>> Remembering back to the 1980s, when I used to plot huge Orcad
>> schematics on a $15000 Calcomp pen plotter (in HPGL emulation) we had
>> the same issue. The text does not line up properly with the wires etc.
>> The basic issue is that the fonts used by PLOTALL do not resemble the
>> nice bitmapped ones used within Orcad (which are used by PRINTALL).
>
>Ah, OK.  That answers my question -- the PS file is hosed (useless).

I would try to add the very fonts used to the front of the PS file.
A bit of a hack, but it would solve the problem for good. (Except
for people who get irritated if a 300 bpi font is printed in 1200
bpi.)

Groetjes Albert

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