[GRASSLIST:6071] Re: Printing to a HP DesignJet plotter?

[Stephan Eickschen]

Hamish,

> I was wondering if anyone was using GRASS with a HP DesignJet plotter or
> other HPGL device?
> 
> There seemed to be talk of HPGL output in some pages I found from the
> old days (CERL), but nothing recent.
> 
> A PostScript to HPGL/2 converter might do the trick if I could find one.
> I'm trying to stay away from the rasterizing Gimp printer drivers, but
> maybe the GRASS PNG driver with a very large width and height (and file
> size) will be the only way.
A google search for 'postscript ghostscript hpgl' brought me to
pstoedit
	http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit
which claims to be able to convert ps file to hpgl. I did not test it
myself...

Hope this helps,

Stephan

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