Converting PDF to PCL5 on Windows?

In my application, I need to convert PDF docs to PCL5 generic files to send to FTP PCL capable printers. Printing to file would be a last resort, I would prefer a small-footprint command line tool or API 开发者_JS百科that will do the job.

I've seen some mention of doing this on Linux using Ghostscript, but I've got no idea how to replicate this on windows.

Many thanks

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Ghostscript is available also for windows. You can test It with opening a command window and using the gswin32c command. You can build a shell script that send the "gswin32c" command with all the options needed.

This could help you find the right sequence of flag and otpions

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Here is an example command that would generate one color PCL/XL from three PDF input files in a single go:

gswin32c.exe ^
    -dBATCH ^
    -dNOPAUSE ^
    -dSAFER ^
    -sDEVICE=pxlcolor ^
    -sOutputFile=c:/path/to/my.pcl ^
    first.pdf ^
    2nd.pdf ^
    no3.pdf 

(use -sDEVICE=pxlmono if you want black+White PCL output only). If you know your target printer in advance, you'd probably want to use some other -sDEVICE=... param.

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It seems you are searching for a generic printer driver: maybe this hpijs-pcl5e could fit, or also you can try HPLIP

Hp universal could be another starting point.

OpenPrinting in general has a lot of material you can dig. I'm sorry but my knowledge about this subject arrives just here. :)