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- S P L O T - The Pen Plotter Simulator V2.2 for Windows
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- Copyright (C) 1991-94 by Alexandr NOVY
- All rights reserved.
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- March 1994
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- The SPLOT program is a highly effective tool intended for
- simulating the pen plotter on the display of an IBM PC. The SPLOT
- program is the very thing you need to make your work with the plotter
- more effective. The SPLOT program will give you a guarantee you will
- always draw on your plotter what you really want. That is why it will
- save your nerves, your time, your plotter, pens and paper, that means
- your money.
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- The SPLOT program can offer:
- - active support of about 50 HP-GL instructions (according to the
- type of simulated plotter).
- - active support of 20 DXY-GL instructions (for ROLAND plotters).
- - possibility of exporting a picture to the printer and in this
- way to obtain an output of a high quality. In this way the SPLOT
- program will make a fast and excellent plotter of your printer.
- - exporting a picture to the HP-GL, DXY-GL and DXF formats.
- - possibility of making picture cuts (the ZOOM function). In this
- way you can scan, draw on the plotter or print only the
- selected part of the picture.
- - to teach your plotter the advanced instructions you would get only
- if you buy a more expensive plotter or additional hardware (e.g.,
- the SPLOT program can simulate connecting an additional HP 17440A
- graphics enhancement cartridge to the HP 7440A ColorPro plotter).
- - possibility of processing a HP-GL text including multilingual
- characters - in this way the SPLOT program will teach your plotter
- German (Spanish, French, etc.) easily and quickly without
- complicated switching between character sets!
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- The SPLOT program can be used by:
- - anybody who wants to work with his plotter in the WYSIWYG style
- (What You See Is What You Get).
- - anybody who wants to develop his own plotter program applications.
- You can reach it with the SPLOT program easily even if you do not
- own the plotter at all!
- - anybody who wants to use his printer as a plotter occasionally or
- constantly. In many cases using a printer may be faster and
- moreover, this may be an alternative of a high quality.
- - anybody who wants to program a printer in graphics mode and at a
- high level and who does not want to develop complicated software
- which would enable it. In these cases using the HP-GL language in
- connection with the SPLOT program seems to be very advantageous
- for creating own graphics outputs. The HP-GL language can be
- learned very easily and in addition, it offers unexpected
- possibilities.
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- The SPLOT program is available for various plotter versions. This
- means that there are provided DLL modules designated for a certain
- plotter type. This principle gives the maximum reliability of
- simulation of the given plotter type. At present the DLL modules for
- the following plotter types are at your disposal:
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- Plotter type | Plotter syntax
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- HP 7470A | HP-GL
- HP 7475A | HP-GL
- HP 7440A ColorPro | HP-GL
- HP 7550A | HP-GL
- HP 7570A/7575A/7576A DraftPro DXL/EXL | HP-GL
- HP 7595A/7596A DraftMaster I/II | HP-GL
- ROLAND DXY 1100/1200/1300 | DXY-GL / RD-GL I
- ROLAND GRX 300/400 | RD-GL II
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- An UNREGISTERED COPY of the program is available only in the version
- for the HP 7475A and HP DraftMaster plotters. The versions for other
- plotter types can be received only on the basis of a regular
- registration. See the file LICENCE.TXT for registration information.
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- An UNREGISTERED COPY is provided only with on-line manual in the
- help file. The registered users will receive a printed user's manual.
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