gamiddleton@thunder.UUCP (Guy Middleton) (06/14/85)
One of the things you don't get (at least we didn't get one) with an
Imagen laser printer is a filter for translating plot(1) commands to
Impress. Does anybody have one? If not, I guess I'll write it and post it
to the net...
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Guy Middleton, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont.
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..ihnp4!mmm!thunder!gamiddletonwcs@ho95e.UUCP (x0705) (06/15/85)
> One of the things you don't get (at least we didn't get one) with an > Imagen laser printer is a filter for translating plot(1) commands to > Impress. Does anybody have one? If not, I guess I'll write it and post it > to the net... > -- > Guy Middleton, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont. > ..{allegra,clyde,decvax,utcsrgv}!watmath!thunder!gamiddleton > ..ihnp4!mmm!thunder!gamiddleton *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** The cheap approach is: fooo | plot -T4014 | IMAGENSPOOLERCOMMAND -Ltektronix This has about half the resolution of the Imagen, and doesn't scale real well, and chokes on excessively hairy graphs, but it works and you've already got it. My department wrote a better filter (wasn't too hard - hack up lib4014.c), but it was written for a specific application, hasn't been hacked into a plot/tplot option, and the author probably won't get it into publishable form. However, the real work was getting the scaling exactly right for our applications, and finding a decent way to handle line-styles. The actual software wasn't hard to hack, since the IMPRESS command language does have adequate graphics primatives. * ImPress is a trademark of the Imagen Corp. -- Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ 1-201-949-0705 ihnp4!ho95c!wcs Ada << Algol < C < Smalltalk <= Zetalisp