Convert PCL file to some other format (PostScript, PDF ...)

From: Beef (beef_at_pas_de_SPAM_chez_moi.zz)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:42:44 +0100

Hello,

After a bit of searching, and several attempts with GS, I wonder if this
is even possible without buying one of the commercial pcl2ps programs
(around $500 for what I've seen so far).

I followed this:
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&lr=&threadm=75afaa04.0304211430.7f55bc06%40posting.google.com&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26q%3Dconvert%2BPCL%2Bfile%26btnG%3DSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dcomp.os.linux.*

and found a discussion that mentioned:
convert PCL:foo.pcl PS:foo.ps

This doesn't work, and seems to only ever work for HPGL (and not PCL).

The nearest I got was:
pcl3opts foo.pcl

which gives me:
*** pcl3opts

My best guess for the command line needed to generate a similar file is:

 \gs -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sSubdevice=unspec -dSendNULs=1200 -sPJLLanguage=PCL3GUI
     -dOnlyCRD -r300 -sColourModel=CMYK -sPrintQuality=draft \
     -sMedium=plain

But I think that this is to *generate* a PCL file, rather than convert an
existing PCL into PS...

Is there any way of doing what I need?

Beef