Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!tnoibbc!remco
From: remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HP Plotter Drivers that work
Message-ID: <1288@tnoibbc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 07:23:40 GMT
References: <1989Nov20.190339.11007@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: remco@tnoibbc.UUCP (Remco Bruyne)
Organization: Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, IBBC-TNO, The Netherlands
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In article <1989Nov20.190339.11007@terminator.cc.umich.edu> jfm@ruddles.sprl.umich.edu (John Mansfield) writes:
>Hi there NetLand,
>I have a problem and would like some help.  I have a Hewlett-Packard 
>HP7475A plotter and would like to use it on my Mac.  I have tried the 
> ....
>MacPlot Driver that comes with MacDrawII and that doesnt even come close 
>to working.  Does anyone know of a driver for thsi plotter that will work? 

We have the same problems. We would like to use the plotter for drawing
slides, but the results are bad. I succeeded in drawing some things with
the plotter driver of MacDraw II 1.1, though.
When you want to draw a drawing on a plotter, you should only use Geneva
for texts, and plot it in draft mode, because otherwise you
get *bitmap* drawing of screen characters (which takes 'some' time).
Line drawing works reasonably well, but we had some problems with hatch
patterns. The hatch pattern crossed the border lines on some places, but
this didn't occur with all pens, so it might be a pen specification fault.

Laserwriter output is so much better, that we prefer it to the color output
of the plotter (which should make the plotter favourite).


So: Help!

Remco
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