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Re: HELP: converting postscript to HPGL ?

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From: Timo Lehtinen
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 22:06
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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.

Opium from Stream Technologies Inc. supports PS -> HPGL conversion
directly at the vector level.  Type 1 fonts are fully supported as 
is mapping of color to different pens.

For more information send mail to "info@sti.fi".

Disclaimer: I work for STI and am one of the authors of Opium.

Timo
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Subject: Re: HELP: converting postscript to HPGL ?
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