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From: a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need HPGL to SIXEL translation.
Message-ID: <424@vaxa.uwa.oz>
Date: 30 Jun 89 08:43:13 GMT
References: <19485@cup.portal.com> <512@dtix.ARPA>
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In article <512@dtix.ARPA>, harvey@dtrc.arpa (Harvey) writes:
> In article <19485@cup.portal.com> Anders_Norwegian_Fongen@cup.portal.com writes:
>>I need to move graphics from PC's to VAX, and consider the conversion from
>>HPGL to SIXEL as a viable alternative. Does anyone know about such a
>>translator?
> 
Depending on your devices, SIXEL is not the best way to go.  DEC's vector
oriented protocol is called Regis and uses commands like V(123,456) in clear
ASCII.  In this respect it would be fairly easy to translate from HPGL to
REGIS.

Once you have a file in REGIS, it can be displayed on any DEC Graphics terminal
that would display SIXEL.  It can only be printed on the higher-end graphics
printers but you can use the low-end devices to screen-dump off a terminal
where the terminal hardware performs a Regis-Sixel conversion.  (DEC also have
a software Regis-Sixel translator).