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From: elkins@topaz.rutgers.edu (George Elkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PostScript->HPGL ?
Summary: non-trivial project
Message-ID: <Mar.28.09.59.41.1990.16759@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 90 14:59:43 GMT
References: <1008@tahoma.UUCP> <2632@legs.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <2632@legs.UUCP>, freds@legs.UUCP (Fred Sieg) writes:
< in article <1008@tahoma.UUCP>, gsds@tahoma.UUCP (K.C.Babb) says:
< < Xref: legs comp.lang.postscript:4041 comp.graphics:9709
< < 
< < Is anyone aware of an available utility which can convert
< < PostScript (or EPS) to HPGL?
[...]
< If there is someone out there knowledgable enough to say yes or no to
< the possibility of such a conversion, would you please post your
< opinion. I think it would be appreciated by many.

To convert PostScript to any other image description language you need
a complete PostScript interpreter.  I suppose there are PostScript
scanners/parsers already written or you could take a public-domain
PostScript previewer and modify it.  It is non-trivial, unlike its
inverse, the conversion of HPGL to PostScript.  PostScript is a
full-blown programming language, while HPGL is essentially a series
of pen-movement commands.

George Elkins