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- From: mcclung@cae1-gw.nwc.navy.mil (Scott McClung)
- Subject: Re: Postscript to HPGL
- Message-ID: <C1FE2M.186@avalon.nwc.navy.mil>
- Summary: Time to power up that flamethrower.
- Keywords: HPGL postscript plotter
- Sender: usenet@avalon.nwc.navy.mil (NWC News Admin)
- Organization: Science Applications International Corporation
- References: <C18FLF.JpG@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> <4825@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:56:46 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <4825@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >You didn't mention why you would want to do such a thing. HPGL has nowhere
- >near the power of PostScript. There are no fonts, etc.
-
- Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize my motives were important.
-
- Well, Vidiot, let's suppose I happen to have an HP pen plotter, for the sake
- of argument, that needs HPGL as input. Also, for laughs, let's suppose I
- need to output D-size maps, and not, let's say, pretty PS fonts on 8.5x11
- or 11x17 paper.
-
- (Hmm, a problem. I'll post, and see if I can get some clues from the net
- folks. Maybe, if I'm real lucky, Vidiot will post, and enlighten me.)
-
- >Personally I believe that trying to put PostScript onto a HPGL device is a
- >big step backward. If you have a SS2, you should have a PostScript printer.
-
- Well, we do, a couple in fact. Thank you for your obvious concern, though.
- Unfortunately, neither of them support D-size output. I have yet to work
- with a PS printer that does. Imagine that. Ah, but if I convert our
- PostScript to HPGL, then I can use it to drive our HP pen plotter.
- Problem solved.
-
- Later.
- --
- Scott McClung - SAIC
- mcclung@archimedes.chinalake.navy.mil
- (setq *disclaimer* "I speak only for myself")
-