[cad-linux] Re: LX-viewer update and request for help

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 AJBIBB@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 6)  Now for the big one.  I made a stab at writing HPGL output direct to a=20
> serial port.  I don=E2=80=99t have a serial printer which I can test

hello,
        i've been following your lx-viewer development and even installed
kdevelop to take a glimpse at your code. I was planning to contribute the
postscript output this weekend since after seeing the qt manuals i though
it could be somewhat straighforward but, since i had a project deadline ,
i just used varicad 7 (demo!) postscript output to make some printings (just
draft, the final printings will be made by an ACAD professional).
        now , about hpgl, i use a simple utility (pstoedit) to
convert from Postscript (and even DXF, although it seems to have a 
lot of bugs) so i think it would be better to output to a file and not
just directly to the serial port. Then, with a common terminal modem
program or even a small C utility (setserial & cat come to mind;) we could
send the file to the plotter.

                        ()s,
                                        Nuno Sucena
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