How are *official* schematics presented?

[Joerg]

Joerg wrote:




Please remember, HPGL was originally about how to talk to pen plotters and
have text fonts, and filled shapes.

I know, but is was (is?) a very nice file format. Used it a lot when I
was young.

 

[Robert Latest]

That's how I did that in the early 90's. OrCad SDT and Word for DOS. But
now? Eagle doesn't even have a native HPGL output format :-(

Sure does, in the CAM processor. Three flavors of it (HPGL, HPGL2, HPGLX).

robert

 

[Robert Latest]

PostScript was not created as a vector drawing
language the way i remember it.

Please see: www.adobe.com/products/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

You remember 80% wrong (see the Introduction of above text. 4 out of 5
features listed there are about vector graphics).

robert

 

[Joerg]

Joerg wrote:




Sure does, in the CAM processor. Three flavors of it (HPGL, HPGL2, HPGLX).

Well, yeah, but I want to export only the schematic. To be honest I have
never used the CAM processor because I do not do layouts.

 

[Robert Latest]

Well, yeah, but I want to export only the schematic. To be honest I have
never used the CAM processor because I do not do layouts.

Don't be so shy. Note that the CAM button is also active in the schematic
editor. Go ahead and press it. See schematics layers available for
selection. See all HPGL options available. See also a PS output device that
actually does a somewhat better (although far from perfect) job than the
printing driver.

robert

 

[Joerg]

Joerg wrote:




Don't be so shy. Note that the CAM button is also active in the schematic
editor. Go ahead and press it. See schematics layers available for
selection. See all HPGL options available. See also a PS output device that
actually does a somewhat better (although far from perfect) job than the
printing driver.

Ok, did that. To my surprise, two things happened: The HPGL file ended
up being a whopping 1.1MB. Ouch. Then I found that the "new and
improved" MS-Word cannot read HPGL any longer. What a progress...