Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Tek 4010 to PostScript converter or emulator
Summary: Free one may be available
Message-ID: <3192@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 22 Feb 89 15:49:58 GMT
References: <44935@linus.UUCP> <1718@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP, biomel@cs.dal.CDN
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1718@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>In article <44935@linus.UUCP>, ted@mbunix.mitre.org (Edward J. Ede) writes:
>> I'm looking for a utility to print tek4010 files on a PS printer.
>> Does anyone have a converter or PostScript prolog that emulates it.
>We sell a package called 4014plot that converts tek plots to PostScript.
>It was written on a UNIX system but it is distributed as source so
>it should be easy to port to whatever you have.  I'm not at work but
>I think it is $80 for source.

I believe that we have such a beast on biomel (send mail there, not to
this machine) which was posted to the net a year or so ago.  As I recall
we tried it out and it worked, but we haven't been using it as written.
The reason is that we generate our plots by feeding Unix neutral plot
files into the graphics driver, and it was simpler to just feed the
neutral plot(1) format directly into a filter that generates PS output.

Anyway, if I get any requests for either of these on biomel I will try
to dig them up and send them out.  The tek2ps filter was, I believe,
written by someone called Brachman in California.  The plot2ps filter
is my hack of this or some other program from Usenet.  It permits
multiple plots on a page by the way.


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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