--- Lez <
lez.briddon@...> wrote:
> Ok when I send my plotter simple things like
>
> IN; IP 0,0,100,100; SC 0,100,0,100;
> SP 1;
> PA 247,353;
> PD;
> PA 191,297;
> PA 185,297;
> PA 180,302;
> PA 180,308;
>
> It works, but when I set my software to hpgl my
> plotter does not work,
> redirecting it to a fle it looks like a mix of hpgl
> and gibberish like
> this
>
>
[]IN;SP0;QL100ROPS10240,8000^¬RO90IP0,0,7999,10239SC0,3999,5119,0ACPA0
>
> with lots of non-printable letters and squiggles
> randomly dropped in.
>
> I guess its a different flavor of hpgl?
>
> What the simplest most basic windows xp driver to
> use hpgl?
>
> is their an hpgl1 hpgl 2 hpgl3 type revision?
>
Looks like the sw is at fault. Plotters are simple
minded beasts and evidently don't take well to 8 bit
characters. HPGL shouldn't have any of the expanded
ASCII characters in it. Can't recall whether it's case
sensitive too.
- YD.
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