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Article #264Re: HELP: converting postscript to HPGL ?
From: Alexander Bakharev
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 16:27
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 16:27
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Matthew Sean Thyer (mthyer@cairo.anu.edu.au) wrote: > Help! > I'm at a loss... > I need to drive a Hewlett Packard DraftPro EXL plotter from a program > called Applixware (a word processor / spreadsheet / graphics / mail) > program for UNIX. My problem is that this program will only print to > postscript or PCL5 printers but I need to generate HPGL (Hewlett > Packard Graphics Language) to run the plotter. GhostScript is claimed to support postscript -> HPGL but your plotter will be run as a ruster device and thow will produce much noise and little throwput and GS fonts are ugly. But if you will use this only a few times it should work, else is better to buy a postscript laser.
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