Converting PRN (PCL) file to PDF

I'm helping a friend with something... She asked for an electronic version of some government public records. She received a Windows-generated PRN file (actually, several of them). I opened one up in BBEdit, and it's PCL, not PS (the Language line is PCLXL). There is no option to get the file in any other format (the provider is unwilling to be of any help). The document is hundreds of pages long, and she'd like it in PDF format. (Ideally she'd like it in a comma/tab-delimited format, but I suspect that's out of the question.)
I believe it's possible to just dump a PCL-PRN file to a PCL printer using lp or lpr, and there are similar utilities on Windows (I have Windows XP in Parallels). But I haven't found a way to push the thing into a PDF file.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!

Posting the solution for anyone happening to find this in a search.
GhostPCL:
http://www.ghostscript.com/GhostPCL.html
did the trick. It's a Unix command-line application. It needs to be compiled, but the process was simple following four lines of instructions.
The command to convert the .prn file to .pdf:
pcl6 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=outfile.pdf INFILE.PRN
(replacing INFILE.PRN with the source file, and outfile.pdf to the name of the file to create.)
The PDF created is pure graphics (mostly vectors); fonts are drawn as vectors but aren't fonts, so can't be selected as text. Thus the files are quite huge. But they're PDFs and otherwise quite usable.
Enjoy!

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