Graphic From SAS/Graph Only Prints With HP 74

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:05 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: If a customer has an HPGL format from SAS/Graph, unless he uses the HP 7475A plotter which is suggested in the manual, direct import only gives half of the file. Is this working as designed? Solutions: This works as designed. WP products support plotter files made for the HP 7475A plotter. The reason for specifying the type of plotter is that different plotters use different plotter instructions. HP has a set of instructions that they have tried to implement on most of their plotters, but even different HP plotters have instructions unique to that plotter. Examples: The HP 7550A has an IV instruction that selects the character set used to produce text. The HP 7475A doesn't support this instruction, and has nothing it can substitute for it. WP products don't support the instruction either. When you move to other families and brands of plotters, the plotter instructions can be totally foreign. That is, they don't resemble the plotter instructions used by the HP 7475A in any shape, structure, or form. Therefore, it is a necessity to select the HP 7475A as the plotter when producing an HPGL file for importing into WP products. To use another plotter is like generating a file that can be printed on an HP laser printer, then trying to print it on a Canon laser printer (or worse a dot matrix printer.) Note: We also support a few commands outside the HP 7475A instructions set that come from the HP 7550A instruction set. However, the 7475A is the documented, and preferred, plotter to use for generating HPGL files. A list of supported plotter instructions can be found in WP's Developer's ToolKit.

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