holbrook@apollo.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) (11/08/88)
Pardon the ignorance, but I've seen a reference to HPGL
a couple of times recently, in the context of a graphics
or plotter language or format. Can someone please tell
me what it is? Thanks...pyt@hprnd.HP.COM (Pierre-Yves Thoulon) (11/09/88)
HPGL is a plotter language developped years ago by Hewlett-Packard for their plotters and can be considered as a de-facto industry standard though I guess other languages may exist. It stands for Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language or something like that. Pyt.
cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (11/09/88)
In article <3f87015d.bf13@apollo.COM>, holbrook@apollo.COM (Alan R. Holbrook) writes: > > Pardon the ignorance, but I've seen a reference to HPGL > a couple of times recently, in the context of a graphics > or plotter language or format. Can someone please tell > me what it is? Thanks... HPGL is a plotter language that includes commands for drawing circles, lines, polygons, plotting several sizes of text. Like PostScript, it is sufficiently general that it can be considered a page description language, though less adequate than PostScript, because it lacks the programming features of PostScript. A wide variety of printers and software packages support HPGL. -- Clayton E. Cramer ..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer
patrick@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Patrick McKinley) (11/09/88)
What is HPGL?
HPGL is the name for Hewlett Packard Graphic Language, which is an ASCII
based language "read" by all HP plotters (and other things now as well).
It is a simple language for selecting pens, moving or drawing lines, arcs
and even text from firmware fonts.
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-'matthew@sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA) (11/10/88)
In article <640@optilink.UUCP>, cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: > > Pardon the ignorance, but I've seen a reference to HPGL > > a couple of times recently, in the context of a graphics > > or plotter language or format. Can someone please tell > > me what it is? Thanks... > HPGL is a plotter language that includes commands for drawing circles, > lines, polygons, plotting several sizes of text. Like PostScript, it > is sufficiently general that it can be considered a page description > language, though less adequate than PostScript, because it lacks the > programming features of PostScript. > A wide variety of printers and software packages support HPGL. > -- > Clayton E. Cramer > ..!ames!pyramid!kontron!optilin!cramer All good and well, but a least tell him what the acronym HPGL stands for. HPGL == Hewlett Packard Graphics Language -- Matthew Lee Stier (919) 469-8300| Sun Microsystems --- RTP, NC 27560| "Wisconsin Escapee" uucp: {sun, rti}!sunpix!matthew |