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S P L O T - The Pen Plotter Simulator V2.2 for Windows
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Copyright (C) 1991-93 by Alexandr NOVY
All rights reserved.
May 1993
The SPLOT program is a highly effective tool intended for
simulating the pen plotter on the display of an IBM PC. The SPLOT
program is the very thing you need to make your work with the plotter
more effective. The SPLOT program will give you a guarantee you will
always draw on your plotter what you really want. That is why it will
save your nerves, your time, your plotter, pens and paper, that means
your money.
The SPLOT program can offer:
- active support of about 50 HP-GL instructions (according to the
type of simulated plotter).
- active support of 20 DXY-GL instructions (for ROLAND plotters).
- possibility of exporting a picture to the printer and in this
way to obtain an output of a high quality. In this way the SPLOT
program will make a fast and excellent plotter of your printer.
- exporting a picture to the HP-GL, DXY-GL and DXF formats.
- possibility of making picture cuts (the ZOOM function). In this
way you can scan, draw on the plotter or print only the
selected part of the picture.
- to teach your plotter the advanced instructions you would get only
if you buy a more expensive plotter or additional hardware (e.g.,
the SPLOT program can simulate connecting an additional HP 17440A
graphics enhancement cartridge to the HP 7440A ColorPro plotter).
- possibility of processing a HP-GL text including multilingual
characters - in this way the SPLOT program will teach your plotter
German (Spanish, French, etc.) easily and quickly without
complicated switching between character sets!
The SPLOT program can be used by:
- anybody who wants to work with his plotter in the WYSIWYG style
(What You See Is What You Get).
- anybody who wants to develop his own plotter program applications.
You can reach it with the SPLOT program easily even if you do not
own the plotter at all!
- anybody who wants to use his printer as a plotter occasionally or
constantly. In many cases using a printer may be faster and
moreover, this may be an alternative of a high quality.
- anybody who wants to program a printer in graphics mode and at a
high level and who does not want to develop complicated software
which would enable it. In these cases using the HP-GL language in
connection with the SPLOT program seems to be very advantageous
for creating own graphics outputs. The HP-GL language can be
learned very easily and in addition, it offers unexpected
possibilities.
The SPLOT program is available for various plotter versions. This
means that there are provided DLL modules designated for a certain
plotter type. This principle gives the maximum reliability of
simulation of the given plotter type. At present the DLL modules for
the following plotter types are at your disposal:
Plotter type | Plotter syntax
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ROLAND DXY 1100/1200/1300 | DXY-GL / RD-GL I
HP 7470A | HP-GL
HP 7475A | HP-GL
HP 7440A ColorPro | HP-GL
HP 7550A | HP-GL
HP 7570A/7575A/7576A DraftPro DXL/EXL | HP-GL
HP 7595A/7596A DraftMaster I/II | HP-GL
An UNREGISTERED COPY of the program is available only in the version
for the HP 7475A plotter. The versions for other plotter types can be
received only on the basis of regular registration. See the file
LICENCE.TXT for registration information.
An UNREGISTERED COPY is provided only with on-line manual in the
help file. The registered users will receive a printed user's manual.