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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: plotter to postscript?
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Date: 13 Oct 88 22:28:34 GMT
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In article <565@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
!In article <644@bnlux0.bnl.gov!, thomas@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Richard A. Thomas) writes:
!! 
!! The commercially available program  PSPlot  will covert HPGL files to
!! Postscript.  It also includes several other utilities, for example,
!
!There is also a PD program to convert HPGL to PostScript, which I 
!can send to anyone that's interested.  It doesn't support the full
!language, but it does include source, and seems to work adequately
!for our needs.

As the original requester I would like to thank Clayton and the
several others who sent me a copy of the free (not PD, the author
restricts selling the package) program. However, it does not perform
for my application "as is". The characters all appear to have
problems, and scaling is not implemented. I plan to look into fixing
some of these problems but for me, it may be more productive to buy
the commercial package. 

I did try the test file and it came out beautifully. Too bad my files
don't. 

So, Richard, thank you for your article on PSPlot.