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- From: ken@racerx.bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sources.wanted
- Subject: Re: Postscript to HPGL
- Keywords: HPGL postscript plotter
- Message-ID: <1241@racerx.bridge.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:28:01 GMT
- References: <C18FLF.JpG@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> <4825@vidiot.UUCP>
- Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript
- Organization: Planet Earth
- Lines: 39
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- In article <C18FLF.JpG@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> mcclung@archimedes.nwc.navy.mil (Scott McClung) writes:
-
- >on converting Postscript to HPGL, on a Sun Sparc 2. (4.1.x) If you have
- >any such information, please E-mail your responses to me. I will
-
- This must be the F-est of all FAQs. Read the FAQ posting.
-
- (I believe the stock answer is ghostscript, though the version I have
- *always* prints one page per file, not directly directable to the
- spooler via stdout. The results look good, but I wasn't too happy with
- the process I had to go through to get it from PS to file to printer.
- Fortunately, I've since obtained access to a PS printer. I've not read
- the FAQ recently myself.)
-
- In article <4825@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
-
- >You didn't mention why you would want to do such a thing.
-
- Duh, maybe because he already has a 300 dpi laser printer and hopes
- that he can conserve precious landfill space by finding a way to use it
- with newer software?
-
- >HPGL has nowhere near the power of PostScript. There are no fonts, etc.
-
- The PS _language_ is a lot more powerful. The proper software on a
- workstation, however, should be able to produce the same arrangement of
- those 300 dpi on an HPGL printer as would a printer with on-board PS.
-
- >big step backward. If you have a SS2, you should have a PostScript printer.
-
- Down with the categorical imperative! Given that you feel so strongly
- about it, why don't _you_ buy him one? ;-) BTW, what's a PS cartrige
- cost for an HP printer, and what's the lowest/oldest model that can
- accept it? That might be his best answer.
-
- --
-
- Ken Hardy
- ken@bridge.com (racerx!ken)
-