wales@valeria.cs.ucla.edu (Rich Wales) (05/08/90)
I am looking for a program that will convert TIFF files to HPGL format. The reason I want such a program is that I have come across a bug in the handling of TIFF images by Microsoft Word 5.0 (PC). Certain pictures end up with one or two extraneous horizontal or vertical lines in them, and nothing I try (specifically, no amount of fiddling with the height and width parameters within Word) suffices to get rid of these lines. For what it's worth, I'm printing to a HP LJ IIP, and I'm using the latest PRD driver info for this printer from the 5.0A maintenance release of Word. I asked Microsoft customer support about this problem, and was told that (1) it's a known bug and (2) the only known workaround is to convert the picture into HPGL format and have Word use that. Unfortunately, I have not been able to test this advice, since I haven't been able to find any tools for creating HPGL images or converting my TIFF pictures to HPGL. I've looked on SIMTEL20, CompuServe, and GEnie, but haven't been able to find what I'm looking for. Any information would be gratefully appreciated. I really don't know anything about HPGL -- so even a response to the effect that HPGL is so completely different from TIFF that the advice I was given has got to be bogus would be welcomed. -- -- Rich Wales <wales@CS.UCLA.EDU> // UCLA Computer Science Department 3531 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024-1596 // +1 (213) 825-5683 "Electricity?!? That hasn't been used in over 400 years, Buck."