From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 12 11:01:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA23935 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA23929 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 11:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10801; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:01:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:01:28 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709121801.MAA10801@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: Nate Williams , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HPGL format In-Reply-To: <199709121755.DAA00551@word.smith.net.au> References: <199709121751.LAA10671@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709121755.DAA00551@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hmm, could I cut/paste from it into something like paint-brush, and end > > up with a GIF/TIF from it? > > You could take a screen grab of it, but not, AFAIR, at any other > resolution. ie. the rasteriser generated the image at screen > resolution for display, and printer resolution for printing, but not at > some arbitrary resolution for cut-n-paste. *argh* > > > Short of that, write your own HPGL parser; it's pretty trivial(*). > > > > It'd be easier to print the darn thing and scan it, but we'd rather not > > lose the resolution in the process. > > Understood. How big is the image? Don't know, someone handed it to me and said 'I need a gif image from this'. If it's alot of work we'll simply print it and scan the image in, but I had hoped one of the ports knew how to convert *from* HPGL into something we can handle. Nate