This is a sample for a small tool I posted in povray.binaries.utilities that
reads hpgl-files and writes prism/lathe definitions for POV.  See my posting in
p.b.u. for details.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> This is a sample for a small tool I posted in povray.binaries.utilities that
> reads hpgl-files and writes prism/lathe definitions for POV.  See my posting in
> p.b.u. for details.
> 
> Christoph
> 

Cool. What kind of HPGL ... binary or ASCII?

It makes life much easier !!!

Marc

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Marc Schimmler wrote:
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[...]
> 
> Cool. What kind of HPGL ... binary or ASCII?
> 
> It makes life much easier !!!
> 

ASCII (I didn't even know, there is binary HPGL :-)

Until now I only used in combination with vectorisation programs (Corel Trace,
Kvec), I don't really know, whether it is 100% kompatible with the
HPGL-Standard.

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
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> ASCII (I didn't even know, there is binary HPGL :-)
> 
> Until now I only used in combination with vectorisation programs (Corel Trace,
> Kvec), I don't really know, whether it is 100% kompatible with the
> HPGL-Standard.
> 
> Christoph
> 

I once tried to find a document in the web that explains HPGL files.
Looks
like HP keeps all the information to itself. How did you find out.
Reverse
engineering?

Marc

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Marc Schimmler wrote:
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[...]
> 
> I once tried to find a document in the web that explains HPGL files.
> Looks
> like HP keeps all the information to itself. How did you find out.
> Reverse
> engineering?
> 

At first : looked at the files (PU/PD is quite self explaining :-)

Further info: http://www.wotsit.org/

Christoph

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Christoph Hormann wrote:
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> At first : looked at the files (PU/PD is quite self explaining :-)

Sure (Pen up / Pen down) even P1 .. is easy.

> 
> Further info: http://www.wotsit.org/
> 

That's it!

Thank you,

Marc

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Hmmm... What...? Exactly, if you don't mind me asking, is HPGL...?
The picture is terrrrrrrific... =)

Christoph Hormann wrote:

> This is a sample for a small tool I posted in povray.binaries.utilities that
> reads hpgl-files and writes prism/lathe definitions for POV.  See my posting in
> p.b.u. for details.
>
> Christoph
>
> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/
>
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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Moon47 wrote:
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> Hmmm... What...? Exactly, if you don't mind me asking, is HPGL...?

Hewlett Packard Graphics Language - usually used for plotting 2d
graphics on a pen plotter.

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Good idea. Now one can convert floor desks from CAD to POV,
for example ;-).

Disnel

Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> This is a sample for a small tool I posted in povray.binaries.utilities that
> reads hpgl-files and writes prism/lathe definitions for POV.  See my posting in
> p.b.u. for details.
> 
> Christoph
> 
> --
> Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
> Homepage: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  [Image]

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Vaclav Cermak wrote:
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> Good idea. Now one can convert floor desks from CAD to POV,
> for example ;-).
> 

I think there are already a lot of programs converting dxf-files to some kind of
POV-definition.  

BTW, yesterday I recognized that it does not work with AutoCAD plotting files
and probably also not with many other programs :-(

I will see what i can do about it sometime ;-)

Christoph

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