HP 8753E manual To View Plot Files on a PC, To Output the Plot Files

To Output the Plot Files

nYou can plot the files to a plotter from a personal computer.

nYou can output your plot files to an HPGL compatible printer, by following the sequence in “Outputting Plot Files from a PC to an HPGL Compatible Printer” located later in this chapter.

w You can run a program that plots all of the files, with the root filename of PLOT, to an HPGL compatible printer. This program is provided on the “Example Programs Disk” that is included in the HP 87533 Network Analyzer Programmer’s Guide. However, this program is for use with LIF formatted disks and is written in HP BASIC.

To View Plot Files on a PC

Plot files can be viewed and manipulated on a PC using a word processor or graphics presentation program. Plot files contain a text stream of HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language) commands In order to import a plot file into an application, that application must have an import filter for HPGL (often times call HGL). Two such applications from the Lotus suite of products are the word processor “AmiPro” and the graphics presentation package “Freelance Graphics. n

Note	Lotus applications are not supported by Hewlett-Packard. The following
	procedures are provided for informational use only. Other applications or other
	versions of the same application may function differently.

When viewed in such programs, the color and font size of the plot may vary from the output of an HPGLIB compatible color printer. The following table shows the differences between the color assignments of HPGL/2 compatible printers and Lotus applications. Also refer to “Selecting Pen Numbers and Colors” located earlier in this chapter.

		HPGUZ Printer				Lotus Applications
	pen			Color		Pen		Color
	No.					No.
	0			White
I	1		I		I	1	I	black
				nw3ent.a				red
				(red-violet)
				blue				gr*n
				yellow				yellow
				green				blue
				red				red-violet
								Mw3t=ta)
				black

Tb modify the color or font size, consult the documentation for the particular application being used.

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