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From: matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: What is HPGL?
Message-ID: <264@greens.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 15:40:09 GMT
References: <3f87015d.bf13@apollo.COM> <640@optilink.UUCP>
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In article <640@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

> >     Pardon the ignorance, but I've seen a reference to HPGL
> >     a couple of times recently, in the context of a graphics
> >     or plotter language or format.  Can someone please tell
> >     me what it is?  Thanks...

> HPGL is a plotter language that includes commands for drawing circles,
> lines, polygons, plotting several sizes of text.  Like PostScript, it
> is sufficiently general that it can be considered a page description
> language, though less adequate than PostScript, because it lacks the
> programming features of PostScript.

> A wide variety of printers and software packages support HPGL.
> -- 
> Clayton E. Cramer
> ..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer

All good and well, but a least tell him what the acronym HPGL stands for.


		HPGL == Hewlett Packard Graphics Language





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