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- From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
- Subject: Seek collaboration on dvi-to-PCL (HP LaserJets etc) driver writing.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.143624.3288@irfu.se>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:36:24 GMT
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- I have an alpha version of a driver for dvi to HP Print Command Language
- (PCL, Understood by HP LaserJets and othe HP printers) and want to
- improve it with better \special support (HP-GL/2 and pbm graphics; it can
- already handle PCL graphics via \special}. Also I want te update it
- to PCL5 for more efficiency. The driver is quite fast as is (total
- time for processing the .dvi file of a 100 page, fairly complicated
- document is about 1.7 seconds on an HP 9000/730). I call the driver
- "dvi2pcl.
-
- I seek collaboration with people interested in upgrading the "dvi2pcl"
- to turbo version to make publically available. Reportedly, between 60
- and 70% of all printers out there understand PCL (about 3,000,000 HP
- LaserJets sold to date!) so I think there's a market for such a driver.
- Many people use drivers that produce PostScript as output. With
- "dvi2pcl" no PostScript is necessare. Text and graphics are produced
- directly in PCL format.
-
-
- Please e-mail. Should there be many replies, I will take the liberty to
- chose from them to create a small (3-5 people?) "dvi2pcl" development team.
-
-
- Bo
- bt@irfu.se
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