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- Subject: Re: HP Pen plotter
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.235912.2455@nic.csu.net>
- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Date: 13 Aug 92 23:59:11 PDT
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- References: <1992Aug14.000852.9592@pslu1.psl.wisc.edu> <1992Aug14.023210.1295@nic.umass.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug14.023210.1295@nic.umass.edu>
- a74k110@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Chris Lloyd) writes:
- >if you want to print PostScript on it, you'd probably be better off
- >selling it and buying a cheap dot matrix and using something like Dots.
-
- Don't the more "modern" HP plotters include support for stuff
- like area fills and the like? Can you say pathforall? Hee hee
- hee.
-
- >Printing bitmaps on a plotter would be quite an impressive thing to watch
- >the plotter do, but the results would be a bit spotty.
-
- Try run-length encoding. (a/k/a how to turn a vector device into
- a raster device) :-) :-) :-)
-
- A long time ago I wrote something that autotraced bitmaps and
- made "color by numbers" pictures by drawing the contours. The
- results were... amusing.
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