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
