tpoon@crunchie.ee.ubc.ca (POON TSZ MING) (02/15/91)
I just read a news about the conversion from HP-GL to PS. Is there
any program that can do the other way (PS -> HPGL).
Thank you.
Tsz Ming POON
tpoon@fs1.ee.ubc.caU12570@uicvm.uic.edu (Ed Garay) (02/17/91)
A cumbersome solution would be to use PC pgms like UltraScript or GoScript to output TIFF or PCX; and convert TIFF/PCX to HPGL via HiJaak. --- Ed
mikec@wor.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) (02/17/91)
Last night, I ftp'ed over to uunet.uu.net, and in the postscript directory, I vaguely remember seeing a PS->HPGL, or vice versa. So, if anyone wants it, it's there. MikeC -- _________________________________________________________ Michael D. Callaghan, MDC Designs, University of Maryland mikec@wam.umd.edu
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (02/18/91)
In article <1523@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> tpoon@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (POON TSZ MING) writes:
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< I just read a news about the conversion from HP-GL to PS. Is there
<any program that can do the other way (PS -> HPGL).
There are many net readers that keep asking for a PS -> HPGL conversion
program. In a nutshell the answer is NO and there never will.
The problem is that PostScript has more power in it that HPGL will never have.
What does one do about the fonts, about the way that curves are drawn, etc?
It is a project that I don't think that someone is willing to tackle, when
the best thing to do is get a PostScript printer.
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc@spool.cs.wisc.edurichard@images1.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Richard Sexton) (02/19/91)
In article <1407@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >In article <1523@fs1.ee.ubc.ca> tpoon@fs1.ee.ubc.ca (POON TSZ MING) writes: >< >< I just read a news about the conversion from HP-GL to PS. Is there ><any program that can do the other way (PS -> HPGL). > >There are many net readers that keep asking for a PS -> HPGL conversion >program. In a nutshell the answer is NO and there never will. Be that as it may, when a friend of mine needed to plot AutoCAD drawings and all he had was the .PS version sof them and an HP printer, he wrote a program to convert the PS that Autocad used to HP PCL. He died; I don't have the program. In general of course, you are right, but the example you have given is a bad one; counter examples exist. >What does one do about the fonts, about the way that curves are drawn, etc? Fonts are becoming less of a problem; as are curves with the new laserjet. Disclaimer: I'd rather stick red hot steel needles in my eyes than use a laserjet. -- "A spud with a 386 and a cartoon fetish is not an administrator" - dave@ccicpg The other Richard Sexton richard.sexton@waterloo.ncr.com