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From: bb16@prism.gatech.EDU (Scott Bostater)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: BGI for Laser
Message-ID: <25005@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 25 Mar 91 23:14:10 GMT
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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There's a program called Mercury (shareware version of Eureka!) that comes
with a hp laserjet bgi file.  I didn't try and use the bgi directly from TP,
but did have the Mercury program generate a hp plot file.  The file it 
generated was about 700K for a 300x300 4"x5" plot.  The actual plot file was
bloated with unneeded commands.  I don't know if this is an aspect of the
bgi file in general or particular to the Mercury program, but I wasn't 
impressed.  

This is also the *only* laserjet bgi driver that I've seen so it may be no
worse than any commercial bgi driver available.  I normally send plot data
to a LJ III in compressed mode and can get 300x300 4"x5" plots in 70-120K
using PCL-5 commands.

-- 
Scott Bostater      Georgia Tech Research Institute - Radar Systems Analysis
"My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from Him"  -Ps 62.1
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