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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> Does anyone know how to convert this to something a bit more standard?

Like what?  MS Word for Windows 2.0 had a reasonable HPGL import 
module; it wasn't shipped with 6.0 but worked OK there too.  You ended 
up with a WMF embedded in your Word document, but couldn't do much more 
with it.

Canon were flogging an HPGL rasteriser called Print-a-plot with the BJ 
printers, but I don't think it did bitmap output.

Short of that, write your own HPGL parser; it's pretty trivial(*).  The 
biggest problem is that HPGL is designed for vector output, so you have 
to worry about line thickness and all that jazz.

mike

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