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phil
phil

Reputation: 157

Find out print size of HPGL (.plt) file programmatically

I'm currently working on a project where I have to find out the print size of HPGL(2) files which usually come with a ".plt" file extension.

I'm running a Unix system with Debian (PHP) and tried out "hp2xx" already which worked fine for some files but had problems detecting the size of more complex print files.

Is there any other method on finding out the print size of HPGL files? Maybe someone already has some experiences.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 699

Answers (1)

scruss
scruss

Reputation: 1160

hp2xx gets font sizes hilariously wrong, so if you have LB commands, it will produce misleading output.

CERN's free HP-GL Viewer has a -size option that spits out drawing extents.

Upvotes: 1

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