Dave McGuire wrote:
On Oct 4, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Robert Fitzsimons wrote:
Do you still have the code? would you share? I have an old plotter and
learned some HPGL years ago, even wrote some simple plotting tools. Now I
would use HPGL as an example exporter with the scriptable PCB project.
I didn't see a response from Dave, but I've attached the code wrote to work with my plotter last year. It is able to convert a DXF file to HPGL format.
Sweet, that looks like it'll be handy. :-) I'm still looking for my old code; it's on one of about a hundred tapes. I know I have it, I'm just not sure where!
Ok, it's getting pretty late in the day, so I had better ask my bone-head question of the day if I'm going to get it done.
Is HPGL at all like PCL? I'm not very familiar with printer languages other than Postscript. The reason I ask is that the Epilog laser cutter to which I will soon have access is rumored to run on slightly tweaked PCL5. Epilog does not publish specs, but some work has already been done to reverse engineer the protocol, and from what I gather it is mostly PCL5.
The book "The HP-GL/2 Reference Guide" from HP is a pretty easy read.
Perhaps someone else can give some tips on PCL5.
-Dan
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