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Re: Seek collaboration on dvi-to-PCL (HP LaserJets etc) driver writing.

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From: Bill Meahan
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:29
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In article <1992Aug20.143624.3288@irfu.se> bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide') writes:
>I have an alpha version of a driver for dvi to HP Print Command Language
>(PCL, Understood by HP LaserJets and othe HP printers) and want to
>improve it with better \special support (HP-GL/2 and pbm graphics; it can
>already handle PCL graphics via \special}.  Also I want te update it
>to PCL5 for more efficiency.  The driver is quite fast as is (total
>time for processing the .dvi file of a 100 page, fairly complicated
>document is about 1.7 seconds on an HP 9000/730).   I call the driver
>"dvi2pcl.
>
            [...]
>
>Bo
>bt@irfu.se
>-- 
>   ^   Bo Thide'--------------------------------------------------------------
>  |I|        Swedish Institute of Space Physics, S-755 91 Uppsala, Sweden
>  |R|      Phone: (+46) 18-303671.  Fax: (+46) 18-403100.  IP: 130.238.30.23
> /|F|\          INTERNET: bt@irfu.se      UUCP: ...!mcvax!sunic!irfu!bt  
> ~~U~~ ----------------------------------------------------------------sm5dfw-


I sincerely hope you include the PCL4+ supported by the DeskJet 500
series! (And set it up so it will compile on my 3B1 [99 44/100 % pure
SysV]).


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From: wwm@wa8tzg.mi.org (Bill Meahan)
Subject: Re: Seek collaboration on dvi-to-PCL (HP LaserJets etc) driver writing.
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