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From: daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: HPGL rasterizer
Message-ID: <2433@island.COM>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:50:58 GMT
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In <9955@cica.cica.indiana.edu> mcmullen@macado.cica.indiana.edu (Rick McMullen) writes:

> Anyone out there in netland know where I might find a program that
> converts HPGL
> files to a bitmap format (X11 bitmap, window dump, TIFF, GIF, Sun
> raster, etc., etc.)?

> The basic problem is to go from Autocad drawing files to a bit mapped image.

	I can do it, but I'll have to attempt to not sound like an ad...

	I wrote the HPGL filter that comes with IslandDraw.  It handles
a subset of HPGL, certainly the AutoCad produced files that I ran through
it.  IslandDraw will output many formats, so there's one way.

	As long as I am writing, if anyone out there is using this
filter and comes across files that they cannot convert, contact
tech support at Island and arrange to send a tape or tarmail
of the file in question.  We want to get a wide range of examples
so that we can continue to improve the filter.

				Daniel
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