srv@philabs.philips.com (Sreeram Venkit) (11/09/89)
I am trying to convert a 'PicED MetaFile (PMF)' into a postscript file
so that it can be printed on our available laser printer. The above PMF
is an ascii file output from a Mentor Graphics software called PicED
and is supposed to closely resemble postscript page description language.
The file has to be preceded by a prologue that defines the PMF primitives
in terms of postscript primitives. Has anybody done this?
According to the PicED manual, the syntactic constructs, delimiters
and escape sequences in PMF are identical to postscript. Given this
how difficult would it be to write this prologue part?
Any pointers, suggestions etc. will be greatly appreciated. I just happened
to get involved in the above problem and normally don't read these
newsgroups. So please send your replies to 'srv@philabs.philips.com'
Thanks in advance.
Sreeram
(srv@philabs.philips.com)srv@philabs.philips.com (Sreeraman Venkitasubrahamanian) (11/09/89)
I am trying to convert a 'PicED MetaFile (PMF)' into a postscript file
so that it can be printed on our available laser printer. The above PMF
is an ascii file output from a Mentor Graphics software called PicED
and is supposed to closely resemble postscript page description language.
The file has to be preceded by a prologue that defines the PMF primitives
in terms of postscript primitives. Has anybody done this?
According to the PicED manual, "the syntactic constructs, delimiters
and escape sequences in PMF are identical to postscript". Given this
how difficult would it be to write this prologue part?
The purpose is to print a mentor picture file on an unconnected laser
printer. (We don't have the server for the Apollo). Is there is any other
way of doing this? I know that the mentor software can output picture files
in a format called TIF. Can this be converted to PS?
Any pointers, suggestions etc. will be greatly appreciated. I just happened
to get involved in the above problem and normally don't read these
newsgroups. So please send your replies to 'srv@philabs.philips.com'
Thanks in advance.
Sreeram
(srv@philabs.philips.com)keil@apollo.HP.COM (Mark Keil) (11/10/89)
In article <67617@philabs.Philips.Com> srv@philabs.philips.com (Sreeram Venkit) writes: > > I am trying to convert a 'PicED MetaFile (PMF)' into a postscript file > so that it can be printed on our available laser printer. The above PMF > is an ascii file output from a Mentor Graphics software called PicED > and is supposed to closely resemble postscript page description language. > The file has to be preceded by a prologue that defines the PMF primitives > in terms of postscript primitives. Has anybody done this? > > According to the PicED manual, the syntactic constructs, delimiters > and escape sequences in PMF are identical to postscript. Given this > how difficult would it be to write this prologue part? > > Any pointers, suggestions etc. will be greatly appreciated. I just happened > to get involved in the above problem and normally don't read these > newsgroups. So please send your replies to 'srv@philabs.philips.com' > > Thanks in advance. > > Sreeram > (srv@philabs.philips.com) I have not used PicED, but I have used neted, so what I suggest is based on outputting neted sheets to postscript. If you have & run the laser plot/printer server, set up another plot server process in offline postscript mode. Set it up to print to some fake device name. Then plot (or print) to the new pseudo device. The output will be to a file which will sit there. You can then look in that file, and get the prolog that is prepended to the output. That may well work right off. If nothing else, it should get you closer to what you want. Below is the config file (mpa.config) that I use for an A size pseudo printer. I call the printer mpa (for mentor pseudo A) To plot Neted sheets, I say something like: plot -pr mpa circut I then look for xpa.test.fcaa.0.userid.circut.sheet1 in /sys/print # MENTOR A size postscript print server config file DEVICE POSTSCRIPT INTERFACE OFFLINE PRINTER_NAME MPA FILE_BANNERS ON MODEL_NUMBER generic_ps PAPER letter OUTPUT_PREFIX xpa.test # Following parameters are applicable to 'language printer' files: BOTTOM_MARGIN 0 FORM_LENGTH 66 FORM_WIDTH 80 LEFT_MARGIN 0 PAGE_HEADERS OFF TOP_MARGIN 0 I hope that this helps, Mark Mark Keil Apollo Computer, Chelmsford MA 01824 +1 508-256-6600 x2495 keil@apollo.com / {decvax,mit-erl,yale}!apollo!keil