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From: daniel@island.COM (Daniel Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Looking for a gif to hpgl converter
Keywords: I can't find one; why does HP have to be difficult?
Message-ID: <3758@island.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 91 18:40:15 GMT
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In <45549@nigel.ee.udel.edu> almquist@cis.udel.edu (Squish) writes:

> I've looked around and around and I can't find a program to convert gif to
> hpgl or gif to something to hpgl.  Nobody in the UNIX world seems to really
> like hpgl.  Hpgl is a DOS standard and postscript is a UNIX standard.  Oh
> well, any help would be greately appreciated.

	Well, plenty of HPGL gets plotted off of Unix boxes, and plenty
of postscript flows out of dos programs...but that's neither here nor there...

	Having recently dealt with HPGL (to IslandDraw) I can say I wished for
a "Portable Vector Format" several times.  Of course, getting agreement on
what it should and should not have, and getting enough input and output
filters to really make it useful is a huge undertaking.  A Portable Vector
to Portable Bitmap conversion (and vice-versa) would be a key link, something
that would strengthen acceptance of "pvf".

				Daniel
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