Re: Calcomp Calgraphics Plotter

[John Wendel <john wendel metnet navy mil>]

Brian D. McGrew wrote:
> Anyone gotten this to run under Fedora?  We’ve got one that we need and 
> it’s too old for any of the Windows drivers (98/NT was the latest).  So 
> I’m thinking I could make a PDF from my Windows application and print it 
> on Fedora if I can get the plotter to work.  I read something in the 
> documentation for it that said it requires a vector driver.  How can I 
> make this beast work?
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> Thanks!
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> :b!

Try this web page, it is a program to convert postscript/pdf to hp-gl, 
which you should then be able to feed to your plotter. I haven't tried it.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/pstoedit.1.html

Regards,

John