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From: stephens@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Greg Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printing to an HP plotter
Message-ID: <6150006@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 87 18:41:47 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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I have used to plotter drivers for the Mac (PlotStart and MacPlots II) and
would recommend MacPlots II.  However, I find that plotter support on
the Mac is one of the Mac's biggest weaknesses over PC's.  One of the major
reasons is font support.  The Mac plotter drivers only support the imbeded
stick font that the HP plotters have.

MacPlots II has a way of specifying colors for items within MacDraw and
other drawing programs.  After the drawing is done you group together all
of the items that you want to be a specific color with a option-n item
that you enter someplace in the drawing.  The effect is that if you
type and option-3 (a delta will appear in MacDraw), everything grouped
together with that item will be plotted with pen 3.

For my purposes, plotting of presentation graphics, I cannot use the Mac
and have to revert to using a PC with Drawing Gallery or Windows Draw
to get the 'pretty' fonts and use the full features of the plotter (as
I recall, the MacPlotter drivers don't handle line thickness very well
either).