Converting PDF to PCL5 on Windows?

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Published on 2010-05-18T08:04:01Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 8:20 UTC
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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 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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