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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PostScript -> HPGL
Summary: HPGL
Keywords: PostScript interpreter source HPGL
Message-ID: <17439@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 14 Dec 89 14:35:01 GMT
References: <1030@dutrun.UUCP>
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX
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In article <1030@dutrun.UUCP>, jwdb@dutnak2.UUCP writes:
> 
>   
> I know that this question has been around one or more times, but at the
> time I didn't pay much attention.  Now, however, someone has asked me if
> I could get hold of a PostScript to HPGL converter.  It seems to me that
> the minimum required is a PostScript interpreter, and as such a thing
> just has to exist somewhere I thought I'd rather ask here than reinvent
> the wheel (or *a* wheel, at least :-)).
> So, does anyone know if such a program already exists, and if not,
> are there any similar programs wherein a PostScript interpreter is
> imbedded (and of which the source is available; we could always add
> our own HPGL translator).
> (I guess you should know that there is one additional problem: we don't
> have an anonymous ftp possibility from our place in the hierarchy.)
> E-mail, please.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's patience; may your 'kill'-key last forever.
> --
> JanWillem de Bruijn            ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!dutrun!dutnak2!jwdb
> Seismics and Acoustics                           jwdb@dutnak2.tudelft.nl
> Faculty of Applied Physics         Discipline is never an end in itself,
> Delft University of Technology         only a means to an end.

The QMS PS-800 and 810 have a HPGL interpreter built in.  I have a
piece of code that allows you to turn it on and off fromwithin postscript.
The Laser Connection, in mobile alabama may have one.  I have started working
on one.  Conceptionaly it is fairly easy, an input scanner, parser, amd printer.
Somewhere I have a document outlining HPGL, but I'm not sure just where.  IF
I could find it, I'd make an estimate for writing one.

Cheers, Woody Baker
512-837-8317