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re: Mike's comments on my upcoming plot submitting program:


Yeah, I came to that conclusion.  I printed out two files-- both generated
from AutoCAD 13-- one intended for the HPLJ 4MV, the other for the HP650C.

Sure enough, there were marked differences: the HPLJ file had much more PCL
in the file header.  What I needed to do for the HP650C file, in order to
get it to print on the laserjet, was massage it a bit.  I replaced the
personality mentioned in the PLJ portion with "PCL" (was "HPGL2") and that
solved 90% of the problem.  However, I'm having trouble getting the correct
frame and scale size for the print.  If left alone, only a small portion of
the lower left corner prints out.  I have tweaked it to the point where the
image is reduced and the aspect is correct, but not all of the image prints.
The origin is wrong (left center of page) and the right and lower portions
are clipped.  But-- I'll get it.

The truly odd part in all of this is that the true PCL files exhibit a
strange trait: no matter how I set the page orientation in PCL, the files
print out in landscape.  I've tried several tactics-- none have worked.  But
again-- I'll get it.

I'm too stubborn to quit!

Randy
(I will provide VB source of the project to anyone who emails me with help
on this)



Mike Enright wrote in message <353b7973.723221150@news>...
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>You may need some few PCL or HPGL/2 commands tacked in ahead of your
>.plt file. You'll need a PCL reference from HP.
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>Mike Enright
>enrightm@acm.org (Email replies cheerfully ignored, use the news group)
>http://www.users.cts.com/sd/m/menright/
>Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, USA
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