4 Apr
2012
4 Apr
'12
1:17 p.m.
On 04/04/2012 20:59, Eric Smith wrote:
(are you the Eric that worked at Cern and ranted about VI?)
John Many Jars wrote:
Windows no longer has HPGL drivers. You can get Roland HPGL drivers that
work up to XP with most HPGL plotters. I use them with my HP and HPDS
plotters. There are third part plotter drivers that will work with many
HPGL plotters available from :-
http://www.winline.com/evalpen.html
but the real one is very expensive. As you surmise many packages can
still be persuaded to produce HPGL. I also wrote a mod to (aka hacked)
the IBM 1130 SIMH package so it would plot HPGL. You can see it driving
my Hitachi plotter here:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCUUgLvVvpg
Dave
G4UGM
I don't think even several model rocket
engines would lift it.
Who said anything about "model" rocket engines? :-)
On a more serious note, it used to be that Windows actually had
drivers for HPGL plotters. I haven't checked in a long time, but I
doubt that recent versions of Windows still have that. I'd expect
that some CAD packages can probably still speak HPGL.