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From: tleaming@taurus.sim.es.com (Taylor Leaming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MACDRAW II file format (?)  and plotting to HP7585B plotter
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Date: 14 May 91 15:14:40 GMT
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[I am posting this message for a friend.  Replies to myself will be 
forwarded
to Steve.]

I am using MACDRAW II to create a set of houseplans.  I want to plot the
drawing out on an HP7585B plotter, but MACDRAW II requires that the MAC be
directly connected to the plotter.  Unfortunatly, my plotter is connected 
to
a VAX port and it is extremly inconvenient to connect directly to it.

I would like to write a converter to convert MACDRAW II files to HP 
Graphics
Language (HPGL), but am unable to find a document on the MACDRAW II file
format.

Does anyone know how I might get a copy of MACDRAW II file formats?  Claris
has been very slow in responding to my requests.

An alternate approach would be to somehow change the port driver and run
MACDRAW II with its internal conversion program and capture the HPGL output
directly from MACDRAW II.  Does anyone know of such a port driver?

Thanks, Steve Hadfield  (shadfield@taurus.sim.es.com)




Taylor Leaming
tleaming@taurus.sim.es.com
Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.