home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!destroyer!wa8tzg!wwm
- From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
- Subject: Re: Seek collaboration on dvi-to-PCL (HP LaserJets etc) driver writing.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug22.002931.1046@wa8tzg.mi.org>
- Organization: What, ME Organized?
- References: <1992Aug20.143624.3288@irfu.se>
- Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:29:31 GMT
- Lines: 32
-
- In article <1992Aug20.143624.3288@irfu.se> bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide') writes:
- >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.
- >
- [...]
- >
- >Bo
- >bt@irfu.se
- >--
- > ^ Bo Thide'--------------------------------------------------------------
- > |I| Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden
- > |R| Phone: (+46) 18-303671. Fax: (+46) 18-403100. IP: 130.238.30.23
- > /|F|\ INTERNET: bt@irfu.se UUCP: ...!mcvax!sunic!irfu!bt
- > ~~U~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw-
-
-
- I sincerely hope you include the PCL4+ supported by the DeskJet 500
- series! (And set it up so it will compile on my 3B1 [99 44/100 % pure
- SysV]).
-
-
- --
- Bill Meahan (WA8TZG) | It figures:
- wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org OR | If there's Artificial Intelligence
- uunet!destroyer!wa8tzg!wwm | there's bound to be some
- "Home for Cybernetic Orphans" | Artificial Stupidity too.
-