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From: richard@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: PS -> HP-GL program exists ?
Summary: maybe yes, maybe no
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Date: 19 Feb 91 14:50:30 GMT
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In article <1407@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <1523@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> tpoon@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (POON TSZ MING) writes:
><
><     I just read a news about the conversion from HP-GL to PS.  Is there
><any program that can do the other way (PS -> HPGL).
>
>There are many net readers that keep asking for a PS -> HPGL conversion
>program.  In a nutshell the answer is NO and there never will.

Be that as it may, when a friend of mine needed to plot AutoCAD drawings
and all he had was the .PS version sof them and an HP printer, he
wrote a program to convert the PS that Autocad used to HP PCL.

He died; I don't have the program.

In general of course, you are right, but the example you have given is
a bad one; counter examples exist.

>What does one do about the fonts, about the way that curves are drawn, etc?

Fonts are becoming less of a problem; as are curves with the new laserjet.

Disclaimer: I'd rather stick red hot steel needles in my eyes than use
            a laserjet.
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  The other Richard Sexton                    richard.sexton@waterloo.ncr.com