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From: ken@kericks.chi.il.us (Ken Erickson)
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Subject: Re: Looking for HPGL to Postscript
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Date: 8 Jun 90 05:08:39 GMT
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I'm posting this for a friend whose news poster is temporarily broken.
Please direct replies to madsen@vijit.chi.il.us.

 Subject: For those asking about HPGL <-> PS

There does exist a program that was posted on the net in a comp.sources
group (unix or misc, probably) that converts HPGL to postscript.  I
don't remember the complete name, but it starts out with `hp...'.  
I don't know of any program that does the reverse as a filter, although 
there are some *DOS* postscript interpreter packages out there (GoScript, 
UltraScript PC, et al).  These packages were reviewed in a recent (within
a couple of months) PC World magazine.  In general UltraScript PC came out
on top.

Personally, I decided to bite the bullet and got the HP Postscript 
cartridge for my LJ; it works on DOS and Unix, and it's faster and I don't have
to fool around with filters and interpreters.  It also required additional
memory.  I bought HP, but was told later that that was foolish (3rd party
add on memory is just as good and seriously cheaper).
I also got `psf2' from comp.sources.misc, which does quite a nice job
of printing ascii files on a postscript printer.  I typically use
landscape 2-up; it's very readable, and saves paper and toner.
[Now I'm "environmentally aware".  Save those trees! :-)]

Hope this answers some questions.


Dave Madsen   ---dcm

gargoyle.uchicago.edu!vijit!madsen (uucp)  or  madsen@vijit.chi.il.us (domain)

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