Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 03:16:37 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HPGL format Message-ID: <199709121746.DAA00497@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 1997 10:33:31 CST." <199709121633.KAA10047@rocky.mt.sri.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Does anyone know how to convert this to something a bit more standard? Like what? MS Word for Windows 2.0 had a reasonable HPGL import module; it wasn't shipped with 6.0 but worked OK there too. You ended up with a WMF embedded in your Word document, but couldn't do much more with it. Canon were flogging an HPGL rasteriser called Print-a-plot with the BJ printers, but I don't think it did bitmap output. Short of that, write your own HPGL parser; it's pretty trivial(*). The biggest problem is that HPGL is designed for vector output, so you have to worry about line thickness and all that jazz. mike (*) 8)
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199709121746.DAA00497>