Earlier today I fished in the depth of my harddisk and found a small tool I
wrote two years ago for simple conversion of HPGL-Files into POV prism/lathe
definitions.  

I only converted it to Delphi today (it originally was written in Speed Pascal
for OS/2).  There are many things to add, right now, it only reads all PU/PD
statements in the HPGL-File into one spline.  

I did a sample scene you can see in p.b.i.

Please tell me if you find it useful for any practical things, so it is worth
further development work. 

Christoph


PS.: The program is Win32 Textmode, if my old Borland Pascal for DOS is still
running, I will try to make a Dos-Version sometime :-)

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Attachments:
Download 'hpgl2pov.zip' (41 KB)

Can you explain to me what a HPGL-file is?

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"Christoph Hormann" <Chr### [at] schunteretctu-bsde> schreef in
bericht news:396E1E0D.B324486F@schunter.etc.tu-bs.de...
:
: Earlier today I fished in the depth of my harddisk and found a small tool
I
: wrote two years ago for simple conversion of HPGL-Files into POV
prism/lathe
: definitions.
:
: I only converted it to Delphi today (it originally was written in Speed
Pascal
: for OS/2).  There are many things to add, right now, it only reads all
PU/PD
: statements in the HPGL-File into one spline.
:
: I did a sample scene you can see in p.b.i.
:
: Please tell me if you find it useful for any practical things, so it is
worth
: further development work.
:
: Christoph
:
:
: PS.: The program is Win32 Textmode, if my old Borland Pascal for DOS is
still
: running, I will try to make a Dos-Version sometime :-)
:
: --
: Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
: Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/

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Bugs74 wrote:
> 
> Can you explain to me what a HPGL-file is?
> 

HPGL is a very common plotter language, that contains pen movement/pen selection
information.  

Important advantage is, that nearly every vector graphics program supports
HPGL-export.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Bugs74 wrote:
> >
> > Can you explain to me what a HPGL-file is?
> >
> 
> HPGL is a very common plotter language, that contains pen movement/pen selection
> information.

Hewlett Packard Graphics Language ?

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