Description: I. INTRODUCTION TO PLOTTING AND PRINTING USING HP-GL/2 AND HP RTL. 1. Plotting and Printing. Vectors and Raster Images. Graphics Limits. Hard-Clip Limits. Soft-Clip Limits. Effective Window. The Coordinate System. Printers and Plotters. Interactions between Different Coordinate Systems. Absolute and Relative Movement. Units of Measure. HP-GL/2 Units of Measure. HP RTL Units of Measure. Isotropic and Anisotropic Scaling. HP Printer Job Language (PJL). Context Switching. II. hp-gl/2. 2. Introduction to HP-GL/2. The Instruction Groups. The Kernel. The Extensions. Pen Status and Location. Pen Status. Pen Location. Scaling. HP-GL/2 Syntax. Notation Used in this Book to Present. Instruction Syntax. Parameter Formats. 3. The HP-GL/2 Kernel. The Configuration and Status Group. Establishing Default Conditions. The Scaling Points, P1 and P2. Using Scaling Effectively. Adapting the HP-GL/2 Coordinate System for Printers to Match the PCL System. Adapting the HP-GL/2 Coordinate System for Plotters to Match the HP RTL System. Windowing: Setting up Soft-Clip Limits. Rotating a Picture. Ending Your Program and Advancing the Page. The Vector Group. Pen Up or Down. Drawing Lines. Drawing Circles. Drawing Arcs. Angle of Rotation. The Polygon Group. Filling then Edging Compared with Edging then Filling. Using the Polygon Buffer. Drawing Rectangles. Drawing Wedges. Drawing Polygons. Drawing Subpolygons. Filling Polygons. The Line and Fill Attributes Group. Using Line Attributes and Types. Using Fill Types. Selecting a Pen and Changing Line Width. The Character Group. Working with the Character Cell. How Your Device Selects Fonts. Using Labels. Default Label Conditions. Character Positioning. Moving to the Carriage-Return Point. Adding Carriage Returns and Line Feeds to. Labels. Enhancing Labels. HP-GL/2 Printing. Area Fills. The Kernel Print Model. Extended Print Model. HP-GL/2, HP RTL, and PCL Print Models. 4. The HP-GL/2 Extensions. The Technical Graphics Extension. Defining a Picture. Chords and Chord Tolerance. The Downloadable Set and User-Defined. Characters. Merging Pixels. Obtaining Device Output. Using Output Instructions. Summary of Output Responses. The Palette Extension. Defining Your Palette. The Dual-Context Extension. Using Dual-Context PCL or HP RTL Commands. Modifications to HP-GL/2 Instructions in Dual-Context Mode. The Digitizing Extension. The Digitizing Procedure. Digitizing with the Plotter. The Advanced Drawing Extension. Drawing Bezier Curves. Merging and Placing Pixels. The Advanced Text Extension. 5. HP-GL/2 Instruction Reference. AA, Arc Absolute. AC, Anchor Corner. AD, Alternate Font Definition. AR, Arc Relative. AT, Absolute Arc Three Point.

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