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From: frank@cavebbs.gen.nz (Frank van der Hulst)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: BGI for Laser
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.073435.7521@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 27 Mar 91 07:34:35 GMT
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In article <26348@adm.brl.mil> DAVID@ches.cs.vims.edu writes:
>There was a recent request which, alas, I did not save so I can't

I too have seen many requests. So I've been working on such a beast for
some months now. It is written Turbo-C, which poses problems with linking
it into a TP program. I'm not sure yet how to do that... anyone got any
ideas?

Incidentally, it works fine in C.

>attribute it, which asked for information concerning a BGI driver
>for HP laser. I too have an interest in this and take the liberty of
>perhaps expanding on what is meant.
>  It would be nice to use all the Turbo graphics routines to drive
>a hard-copy graphics device such as a Laser since a page of laser
>graphics can be regarded as an array of pixels. The output from the
>program would either be a direct drive to the laser or the
>production of a file for off-line plotting.

My program outputs to any binary file, including stdprn.

>  An additional useful driver would be one that produced HPGL output
>either on-line to a plotter or off-line to a file. This might be an
>order of magnitude more difficult as raster-to-vector conversions
>would be required.

I've thought about that, but decided that would have to wait for release 2.
My package does, however, work with lots of different dot-matrix printers.
.
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