Steve: I just finished (gave up) evaluating several hpgl viewers. I found none to equal or even close to the quality of the hpgl... translator to PowerPnt, Word, etc. The first time I view these in a program I check to make sure that it dosen't automatically stretch to fill the frame, which causes distortion. I use this routinely but, decided to check the viewers because I sometimes get tired of chasing the Windows xxx changes.
An overall solution (only if the program has the output of course) is CGM (smart plotting), then it wouldn't matter what plotter or program. Email me the hpgl plot file and I'll run it through my process. (when Bob mentioned 7585, I said; that mine too. I wiped the dust off of the bat file and its 7580) I'll mention this just in case its related. There is one plotting (printing to be correct) problem that I have and I haven't figured out the cause. I have been going along fine for a long time with my 2D CAD and Epson printer. Very good color, very sharp lines and pretty much orients the picture as I see it. Then I loaded 98, several answering machine programs, PS and Ill, digital camera prgms, etc. Every one of these put in a sudo printer. Now I can't get a decent CAD print. I tried a new HP, it wouldn't even load. A project for the rainy days. Steve I >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> At 11:42 AM 4/7/00 -0300, Steve Lelievre wrote: >All, > >I too have tried Bob's method of diverting HPGL printout to a file. I then >used an HPGL viewer to look at the resultant diagram.There's something odd >which I don't understand: The original diagram uses several line width, the >plot file lines all look the same. Also, the original diagram has neatly >aligned Times New Roman text, in the HPGL plot it is not angled correctly >and the font is wrong. > >Rather than loading your mailboxes with big attachments, I've posted screen >snaps of the HPGL plot and the original DeltaCad drawing at >http://www.glinx.com/~srgl/review > >(Ignore the differences in colours, I'm only worried about the shapes) > >Does anybody know why the differences occur? I though it might be a bug or >other limitation of the viewer I was using, so I downloaded a second viewer. >Both viewers give the same results. > >The newer viewer said the file is HPGL rather than HPGL2. Would that be a >consequence of choosing HP 7585A as the printer type, or is the viewer >wrong? > >Thanks, Steve > > >
