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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PostScript->HPGL ?
Message-ID: <1674@corpane.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 90 14:12:26 GMT
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vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal) writes:

>In article <2632@legs.UUCP> freds@legs.UUCP (Fred Sieg) writes:
>!> Is anyone aware of an available utility which can convert
>!> PostScript (or EPS) to HPGL?  If so, please email any info
>!
>!I have asked for this myself on several occasions and I see the
>!request arise every month or so.
>!

>Yes - such a thing would be practically impossible.  Postscript can 
>(just as one example) scale, rotate, translate bit mapped images, and
>fonts.  It is far far more powerful than HPGL.

You don't need to have HPGL do all that, you could do all that in postscript
then translate the finished product into HPGL. 

I will have to check my ventura publisher program, It can read in all sorts
of files, postscript, AutoCAD, HPGL and it supports many different printers.
I know it supports postscript output, and if it supports HPGL plotters then
I would say that it would handle the translation. Just load in a postscript
drawing and print it out to a file in HPGL. 

BTW while on the subject of postscript conversions, does anyone know of a
way to convert postscript into a format that can be used in a CAD program?
such as DXF, autoCAD files, etc? They are all vector formats.

 
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