I am writing to report what I perceive to be bug with pcl6. The command below illustrates the error when attempting to convert PCL5 to PDF. This was compiled natively on an AIX 7.1 system.
/DOCRLS910/PDFSupport/ghostpdl/pcl6 -sDevice=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=/home/egarske/pcl/unittest01.pdf -dNOPAUSE
/home/egarske/pcl/owl.pcl
Artifex Ghostscript 9.10: Cannot open X display `(null)'.
Unable to open new device.
Usage: pcl6 [option* file]+...
Options: -dNOPAUSE -E[#] -h -L<PCL|PCLXL> -K<maxK> -l<PCL5C|PCL5E|RTL> -Z...
-sDEVICE=<dev> -g<W>x<H> -r<X>[x<Y>] -d{First|Last}Page=<#>
-sOutputFile=<file> (-s<option>=<string> | -d<option>[=<value>])*
-J<PJL commands>
Version: 9.10
Build date: Wed Oct 23 19:12:53 2013
Devices: x11 x11alpha x11mono x11cmyk ljet4 djet500 cljet5pr cljet5c
bit bitcmyk bitrgb bitrgbtags pcxmono pcxgray pcxcmyk pdfwrite ps2write
xpswrite txtwrite pamcmyk32 pamcmyk4 tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw
tiffpack tiffgray tiffscaled tiffscaled8 tiffscaled24 tiffscaled32 tiffscaled4 tiff12nc tiff24nc
pxlmono pxlcolor bmpmono bmp16m bmpsep8 pbmraw pgmraw ppmraw png16m
pngmono pngmonod jpeg plan planm plang planc plank bbox
nullpage
The prior working version that I just test a moment ago toes not generate the error.
pcl6
Usage: pcl6 [option* file]+...
Options: -dNOPAUSE -E[#] -h -C -L<PCL|PCLXL> -K<maxK> -P<PCL5C|PCL5E|RTL> -Z...
-sDEVICE=<dev> -g<W>x<H> -r<X>[x<Y>] -d{First|Last}Page=<#>
-sOutputFile=<file> (-s<option>=<string> | -d<option>[=<value>])*
-J<PJL commands>
Version: 9.00
Build date: Fri Sep 17 12:20:01 2010
Devices: ljet4 djet500 cljet5pr cljet5c bitcmyk bitrgb bitrgbtags pcxmono
pcxgray pcxcmyk pswrite pdfwrite pxlmono pxlcolor bmpmono bmp16m bmpsep8
pbmraw pgmraw ppmraw png16m pngmono jpeg nullpage
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