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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript to HPGL
Message-ID: <1951@vidiot.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 91 15:38:14 GMT
References: <3791@hsi86.hsi.com>
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Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <3791@hsi86.hsi.com> kavitsky@hsi86.hsi.com (Jim Kavitsky) writes:
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<    Good morning networld. I`m looking for some software to convert the
<postscript output of one program to HPGL. The system in question is a 
<sun IPC with Open Windows, and an HP laserjet II P. Buying a postscript 
<cartridge is one solution, but they are expensive, and I would also like to be
<able to spool the output to HP plotters that accept HPGL. Any ideas?

Wait a second.  The HP LaserJet IIP is not a HPGL printer.  It is a HP-PCL
printer.

Do you have a HPGL plotter around somewhere?  I don't believe that the HPLJIIP
has HPGL built in.

There are HPGL to PostScript converters around, but PostScript to HPGL is a
step backwards.  PostScript has alot more power in it that can't be converted
into HPGL.  The arc drawing of PostScript is different than the arc drawing
of HPGL.  The characters fonts that are available in PostScript just aren't
available in HPGL.  While the builtin characters of HPGL can be scaled, they
are stick characters.

You won't like the results.  You'd like it better if you were to try and
convert PostScript into HP-PCL.
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