harvey@dtrc.arpa (Harvey) (06/22/89)
In article <19485@cup.portal.com> Anders_Norwegian_Fongen@cup.portal.com writes: >I need to move graphics from PC's to VAX, and consider the conversion from >HPGL to SIXEL as a viable alternative. Does anyone know about such a >translator? I don't know of anything that will convert from HPGL to SIXEL, but I would love to find something that does convert to and from SIXEL. However, I do have a copy of a program called Reggie for a Macintosh that will convert MacPaint files to SIXEL. It works very nicely. I have been really impressed with Reggie. You can create your graphics on the Macintosh, then convert them to SIXEL. Reggie is marketed by White Pine Software, 94 Rt 101A, P.O. 1108, Amherst, NH 03031, telephone #(603)886-9050. I would be very interested to know if anyone has seen this capability with MS-DOS graphics files, HPGL, CGM, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Betty Harvey | I have no affiliation with White Microcomputer Support Group | Pine Software and the opinions are David Taylor Research Center | strictly my own -- who else would | want them! ------------------------------------------------------------------------
a_dent@vaxa.uwa.oz (Andy Dent, ph: 09 380 2620) (06/30/89)
In article <512@dtix.ARPA>, harvey@dtrc.arpa (Harvey) writes: > In article <19485@cup.portal.com> Anders_Norwegian_Fongen@cup.portal.com writes: >>I need to move graphics from PC's to VAX, and consider the conversion from >>HPGL to SIXEL as a viable alternative. Does anyone know about such a >>translator? > Depending on your devices, SIXEL is not the best way to go. DEC's vector oriented protocol is called Regis and uses commands like V(123,456) in clear ASCII. In this respect it would be fairly easy to translate from HPGL to REGIS. Once you have a file in REGIS, it can be displayed on any DEC Graphics terminal that would display SIXEL. It can only be printed on the higher-end graphics printers but you can use the low-end devices to screen-dump off a terminal where the terminal hardware performs a Regis-Sixel conversion. (DEC also have a software Regis-Sixel translator).