13501SGT@MSU.BITNET (Scott Thomas) (01/27/88)
I need an HPGL to Postscript conversion program. I believe there is one
out in the Public Domain but I have been having trouble tracking one down.
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East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1042ccpaul@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Paul W. Grant) (11/11/88)
I would like to find a program that converts HPGL to Postscript preferably written in Postscript. It could be public domain or otherwise. Thank you. Paul Grant Computing Services University of California Davis, California 95616 (916)-752-8266 pwgrant@ucdavis.edu
andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel) (11/12/88)
In article <3268@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ccpaul@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Paul W. Grant) writes: >I would like to find a program that converts HPGL to Postscript >preferably written in Postscript. It could be public domain or >otherwise. Thank you. I don't know of one offhand, but PageMaker 3.0 allows one to import HP-GL files; you can then print your document on anything you've got a Windows driver for. (I have no connection with Aldus, just rummaging around on my PC to see what's there.) Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664 "...I brought you a paddle for your favorite canoe." ______________________________________________________________________________ UUCP : {hplabs|nosc|hpfcla|ucsd}!hp-sdd!andrea Internet : andrea%hp-sdd@hp-sde.sde.hp.com (or @nosc.mil, @ucsd.edu) CSNET : andrea%hp-sdd@hplabs.csnet USnail : 16399 W. Bernardo Drive, San Diego CA 92127-1899 USA
james@cisunx.UUCP (Doug E James) (11/15/88)
Does anyone know of any hpgl to postscript converters. We currently are running autocad on a Sun 3/260. We need to plot our files, and we can't seem to be able to. The plotter runs the hpgl format, but doesn't seem to be able to plot the files. The Sun thinks that the plotter is smarter than it is. If we could convert it to Postscript then we could print it on the laser printer.. Please send me mail if you know, or have any programs that could either convert this hpgl to postscript or any comments on why the problem exits. Thanks for your time... Douglas James University of Pittsburgh Advanced Graphics Lab.
federico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) (11/18/88)
In the last months I've seen a couple of requests for an HPGL to PostScript converter. I wrote such a program half a year ago, and I know of other implementations of the same idea. I wrote it because I didn't like the way the other programs handled pen thickness (which changed according to scaling). I never got around to write any docs, however, and the program can handle all of HPGL except for alpha commands (yes, it does handle filled polygons). I tried to contact each requester a couple of times, but it always bounced back, so I'm trying this. If you are interested, please send mail to the address below (if possible suggesting a working back path), I'll answer as quickly as I can. -- Federico Heinz "In Dubio Pro Libido" From USA: ...!pyramid!\ | Beusselstr. 21 From elsewhere: ...!mcvax!unido!tub!actisb!federico | 1000 Berlin 21 Tel: (030) 396 77 92 | F.R. Germany.
richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Richard Foulk) (11/19/88)
} Does anyone know of any hpgl to postscript converters.
There was a fairly good one posted to the net a while ago. It
should be in the archives somewhere.
Richard Foulk
richard@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edufederico@actisb.UUCP (Federico Heinz) (11/25/88)
I received so many requests for my converter, that I decided to post it in comp.sources.unix (although it's not Unix-specific, I didn't find a better place for it). Allow for some moderation delay, and yuo should get it. The program is public domain, under the same license conditions as the GNU software. Enjoy it -- Federico Heinz "In Dubio Pro Libido" From USA: ...!pyramid!\ | Beusselstr. 21 From elsewhere: ...!mcvax!unido!tub!actisb!federico | 1000 Berlin 21 Tel: (030) 396 77 92 | F.R. Germany.
cyrus@pprg.unm.edu (Tait Cyrus) (04/10/90)
Ok guys, this very question was asked by someone else a couple of weeks ago and he DIDN'T get ONE postive response so I will try asking AGAIN. I need an HPGL to PostScript converter that supports ALL of HPGL and not just a subset. I have grabbed the hpgl2ps from the archives, but it only supports a subset of HPGL. Does anyone know of a COMPLETE implementation? Thanks in advance. I will post a summary, assuming I get any responses. --- W. Tait Cyrus (505) 277-0806 e-mail: cyrus@pprg.unm.edu University of New Mexico Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Parallel Processing Research Group Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131