robert@perv.pe.utexas.edu (Robert R. Schneider) (10/05/90)
Hi; Has anyone ever seen a public domain filter for translating PostScript to HPGL? I'm aware of several that go the other way but nothing which would do this. Any ideas for how to get this done would be appreciated. Thanks in advance ... Robert Schneider +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+ |Robert Schneider | Internet: robert@perv.pe.utexas.edu | |Dept. of Petroleum Engineering| BITNET: pefv673@utchpc | |University of Texas at Austin | THEnet: PERV::ROBERT | |Austin, Texas | UUCP: {...}!ut-emx!perv.pe.utexas.edu!robert| +------------------------------+---------------------------------------------+
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/06/90)
In article <37909@ut-emx.uucp> robert@perv.pe.utexas.edu (Robert R. Schneider) writes: >Has anyone ever seen a public domain filter for translating PostScript to >HPGL? I'm aware of several that go the other way but nothing which would >do this. Any ideas for how to get this done would be appreciated. This is fundamentally extremely hard, because PostScript is a much more powerful language than HPGL. At the very least, it would require a complete PostScript interpreter, plus some interesting design challenges in how to implement, say, area filling in HPGL. A simple translation from HPGL to PostScript is no big deal, but vice-versa "there just ain't no easy way". -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry