Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think!sdd.hp.com!sdd.hp.com!tony From: tony@sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: LaserJet III, HP-GL (was Deluxe Music ...) Message-ID: <1990Aug21.103812@sdd.hp.com> Date: 21 Aug 90 17:38:12 GMT References: <1990Aug13.190229.20209@uncecs.edu> <31110004@hpfinote.HP.COM> Sender: news@sdd.hp.com (Usenet News) Reply-To: tony@sdd.hp.com (Tony Parkhurst) Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division Lines: 44 Nntp-Posting-Host: hpsdl108.sdd.hp.com |> How the hell do you kick a laserjet into Landscape mode? [In HPGL] Try RO 0; |> but from your post it sounds as if it understands HP-GL inherently (jez, if a lot Yes, the LJIII does understand HP-GL/2. |> If the LJIII does understand HP-GL |> then it should automatically print in landscape mode. Landscape mode is the |> default for HP-GL. You would need to put a RO 90; before any of your HP-GL Not always. (refer to different paper sizes on the drafting plotters.) |> to put HP-GL into portrait mode. Of course HP changes (appends and alters) |> HP-GL with every single solitary plotter they develop. When we were developing Yes, so HP-GL/2 is an attempt to standarize the language. This is what is in the LJIII (and the HP-GL/2 cartrige for the PaintJet XL, and the newer plotters from HP). |> have altered the HP-GL for the LaserJet III so its default is portrait. LJIII defaults to portrait (RO 90;) for mixing PCL (text and raster) with the HP-GL on the same page. To do landscape, simply use RO 0; or RO 180; |> Your escape sequence for landscape mode may be right, but it is probably |> over-ridden by the initial reset HP-GL command. You could try a panel selection This would depend on what parameter was used to the %#B sequence to go into HP-GL/2. |> to force landscape mode (If the LaserJet III has a panel to select...) It doesn't. -- Tony Parkhurst ( tony@sdd.HP.COM ) "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;" -- Declaration of Independence.