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Neither the author nor AVEVA Solutions Ltd, or any of its subsidiaries, shall be liable to any person or
entity for any actions, claims, loss or damage arising from the use or possession of any information,
particulars, or errors in this publication, or any incorrect use of the product, whatsoever.
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Copyright and all other intellectual property rights in this manual and the associated software, and every
part of it (including source code, object code, any data contained in it, the manual and any other
documentation supplied with it) belongs to AVEVA Solutions Ltd or its subsidiaries.
All other rights are reserved to AVEVA Solutions Ltd and its subsidiaries. The information contained in
this document is commercially sensitive, and shall not be copied, reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system, or transmitted without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Ltd. Where such
permission is granted, it expressly requires that this Disclaimer and Copyright notice is prominently
displayed at the beginning of every copy that is made.
The manual and associated documentation may not be adapted, reproduced, or copied, in any material
or electronic form, without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Ltd. The user may also not
reverse engineer, decompile, copy, or adapt the associated software. Neither the whole, nor part of the
product described in this publication may be incorporated into any third-party software, product,
machine, or system without the prior written permission of AVEVA Solutions Ltd, save as permitted by
law. Any such unauthorised action is strictly prohibited, and may give rise to civil liabilities and criminal
prosecution.
The AVEVA products described in this guide are to be installed and operated strictly in accordance with
the terms and conditions of the respective license agreements, and in accordance with the relevant
User Documentation. Unauthorised or unlicensed use of the product is strictly prohibited.
First published September 2007
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AVEVA Solutions Ltd, and its subsidiaries
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Trademarks
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General Comm and Lin
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e Optio ns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:2
Specifying the Plotting Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Scaling the Plot to Fit the Paper.Pape r. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Setting the Drawing Size from the Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Specifying How Arcs and Circles are Represented . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
Specifying the Pen Selection Mode and Plotting Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
Dekink Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
Splitting a Large Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
Adding a Plot Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7
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COMMandword
• Command arguments are shown in lowercase italic type, for example argument.
• Examples of interactive input and output sequences are shown in a special typeface,
thus
Exampl e of I nput / Out put Sequence Typef ace
Note: Examples of command syntax throughout the manual use uppercase characters to
make them easily identifiable within the body of the main text.
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PDMS
The format generated by default by graphical output modules.
This gives a binary format file that can define fully the viewing parameters and line graphics
for engineering drawings in device-independent terms.
HPGL
A Hewlett-Packard plotter code format recognised by a range of commercial plotting and
printing devices.
This gives an ASCII format file that can define fully the viewing parameters, line graphics,
arcs and circles of engineering drawings in device-independent terms.
HP-GL/2
This is the standardised version of the Hewlett-Packard Graphical Language. It provides a
more consistent functionality between plotters. It supports many types of device including
pen, laser and electrostatic. The HP-GL/2 plotter code is compact, especially for vectors that
have a special encoding scheme. It is held in binary file format.
Although HPGL and HP-GL/2 are related, HP-GL/2 is not a strict superset of HPGL. It is
best for most purposes to regard them as entirely different. HP-GL/2 is often available in a
dual context with Hewlett-Packard’s PCL.
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DXF
This is the AutoCAD representation of a drawing in their DXF (drawing interchange) file
format. It is an ASCII file format, widely used to exchange drawing file data. The file does
not define the units that its values are held in, so explicit scaling is needed when these
values are not in millimetres.
Data from all sections of the DXF file is interpreted. This includes the LTYPE and LAYER
tables, and the contents of the Blocks section for expansion of INSERT entities.
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These generic plot drivers determine the general format of the output plot file only. The
output generated is compatible with specific hardware devices, as detailed in Device
Drivers, but you may need to customise the drivers to suit a particular plotter or printer.
PLOT’s soft driver facility allows you to do this.
You will notice that four of the output drivers (HPGL, HPGL2, PDMS and DXF) match input
file formats. This means that you may use PLOT to translate plot files between these
formats in either direction.
Note: The HPGL format can exist in slightly different dialects. If you wish to input an HPGL
file obtained from an outside source, you must ensure that it is fully compatible with
the HPGL format that is generated by PLOT. If it is not, you may need to carry out
some preprocessing on the file before using PLOT to convert it to an AVEVA plot file.
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This substitutes output pen integer2 for input pen integer1 and sets its line style to linestyle
and its line width to linetype with optional width value.
Possible settings for linestyle are SOlid , DOt , DAsh , CHain or DChain . The default, if
linestyle is omitted, is SOLID.
Possible settings for linetype are Normal or Thick . The default, if linetype is omitted, is
NORMAL . THICK is optionally followed by the width value, expressed in millimetres. If width
is omitted the default line thickness is set by the driver.
For example, the options:
PENS ATTR, ATTR 2 1 DOT, ATTR 3 1 CHAI N THI CK
This sets input pen 2 to be output as dotted and normal thickness lines and input pe n 3 to be
output as chained thick lines, both using output pen 1.
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The filter travel method reduces the total distance that the pen needs to travel, and the
number of times that the pen is raised and lowered. This can speed up the operation of pen
plotters.
The filter connect method maximises the connection of vectors while retaining all existing
connectivity, including directions.
Note: For speed of processing, the filter makes most of its changes to the plot file where
items concerned are close to each other in the file. Note that it may not remove all
coincident lines when they are far apart in the file.
The Dekink filter is selected by the option:
DEKInk resol coinc travel tabmin tabmax
The arguments are as follows and omitted parameters take their default values:
resol Resolution value is specified in mm. Used to decide whether lines are
coincident or connected to each other.
Default: 0.025
coinc This selects whether coincidence removal is active or not. The value is
set to Y for yes and N for no.
Default: Y
travel This selects whether the travel method is active. Otherwise the connect
method is used. Y = travel method; N = connect method.
Default: Y
tabmin This is the minimum size of the working table used by the filter. Must be
an even number in the range 10-600. The default value is suitable for
most purposes.
Default: 50
tabmax This is the maximum size of the working table used by the filter. Must be
an even number in the range 10-600. The default value is suitable for
most purposes.
Default: 200
After the input file has been processed, a report is produced on the effect of the Dekink filter.
This gives the change in the total distance that the pen needs to travel, and the change in
the number of lines in the output file (both as percentages). For example:
DEKI NK r educed pen t r avel by 68. 99% and number of l i nes by
43. 93%
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Example
Paper Edge
Drwg No
Paper Edge
Figure 3:1.: Cutmarks Example shows six start marks and one end mark. This could be
produced by:
CUTMARK 6 1 1 0. 1 8. 0 5. 0 2. 0 5. 0
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The SCREEN and PNG drivers now have PDMS colours set as default using this
mechanism and the standard PLOTDRIVERS file. The previous colours can be restored by
deleting or commenting-out the screen|screen| … and png|png|… definitions in that file.
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This message confirms that the ADJUST option has automatically rescaled the output plot
to suit its destination device or file. No action is needed.
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plot -drivers
This displays the driver quick reference information for PLOT that can also found in Driver
Quick Reference of this manual.
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EMF output provides a method of inserting or pasting graphics into a variety of document
types.
When this command is run from the shortcut a Multiple-File Open dialog and a Console
window are created. Select one or more plot files and plot will view them all in the order
specified. At each stage the file can be viewed and printed. Close the graphics window or
press Q to move on to the next file. After all files have been viewed Plot returns to the
multiple-file open dialog. Click Cancel to finish.
Other drivers can be used with the input file set to "*". For example the list driver can be
used to display summary information about the graphical contents of the files.
Alternatively, the shortcut on the desktop can be used to drag and drop plot files as well as
browsing for them if the shortcut target is a small batch file DragDropPlot.bat, containing
lines such as the following:
set f i l e=%1
i f " %f i l e%" == " " set f i l e=" *"
st ar t / b C: \ AVEVA\ pdms\ pl ot \ pl ot . exe pl ot sc r een %f i l e% - 0 " AUTO"
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4 Device Drivers
This is a reference chapter that describes each of the available PLOT device drivers. The
information in each section is organised under the following headings:
Models
This lists the supported plotters or defines the translation done by PLOT.
For plotters, the list gives the definitive models for which the driver was originally written,
and any other plotters on which the driver has been tested. The list also gives other models,
from the same or another manufacturer, if they are known to be fully compatible with the
driver.
Description
This describes, in broad terms, the plotter device code or the translation.
Output
This describes the file format output by the driver.
Options
This describes any additional options or controls for the driver, for example scaling or paper
layout.
Note that such options must be enclosed between quotation marks in the command line and
if more than one option is used they must be separated by commas.
Example
This shows the minimum command syntax applicable to the driver, using the default settings
for all user-configurable options.
If applicable, a further example shows the use of some of the more commonly used options.
Note: The LIST driver differs in principle from the drivers described in this chapter in that it
does not translate input plot file data into a different format, but instead provides
summarised information about the overall content of the file. The functions of the
LIST driver are explained in LIST.
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4.1 BENSON
Models
This driver supports the Benson 1302 Plotter with intelligence level I0. This is a drum plotter
with a roll paper feed mechanism. The code-compatible Benson 1322 plotter is also
supported.
Description
The device code for these plotters is based on the relative positioning and drawing
commands of the symbolic Benson format.
Output
The output from this driver is device code that is sent directly to the Benson plotter. This
code is easy to read and the vectors are expressed entirely as relative movements.
Fi l es out put by t hi s dr i ver ar e s equent i al and cont ai n
symbol i c codes. They ar e used onl y f or mai nt enance pur poses.
Options
None.
Example:
pl ot benson vi ew. pl - 1
4.2 CALCOMP
Models
This driver produces code for the Calcomp 1040 series plotters using 906/907 plotter code.
This data format is acceptable to most Calcomp plotters.
The Calcomp 1040 series plotters are drum plotters with either cut sheet or roll feed options,
which can take media up to A0 size.
Description
The Calcomp device code produced by the driver is based on the use of simple positioning,
drawing, and pen selection commands. It can select from up to eight pens.
Output
The output from this driver is device code that is sent directly to the Calcomp plotter. The
data is encoded and is unintelligible. The device protocol means that the code is organised
to include synchronising sequences and checksums. Transmission is synchronised by
waiting for a plotter response after each message.
The coded format for each data record is as follows:
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Newline
Files output by this driver are ASCII coded and record structured. Their content comprises
all the data shown above, except for the request for plotter response and its reply.
Options
The CALCOMP driver allows you to use options to control all low-level detail of the plotter
code format (as shown in the preceding table). You can specify these options either directly,
as PLOT command line arguments (see Running PLOT), or indirectly, as parameters in a
soft driver definition.
The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
BUffer int Sets device to use int data buffers ( int must be 2 or 16).
Default: BU 16
CHecksum Y/N Specifies whether or not checksum is enabled. Default: CH
YEOm intSets the end-of-message character to int (int must
be in the range 0-127). Default: EO 3
HEader Y/N Specifies whether or not a search address is to be included
in the output header. Default: HE Y
LIne int Sets the line length of the output data field to int characters
(int must be in the range 80-125). Default: LI 119
NL Y/N Specifies that a newline code is to be output between lines.
Default: NL Y
PAd int Sets the number of padding characters to be used before
SYNC and after EOM to int characters (int must be in the
range 0-10). Default: PA 10
RAdix int Sets the number conversion radix to int (int must be 64 or
95). Default: RA 95
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The defaults specified in the standard CALCOMP driver are equivalent to the following
options string:
" BU 16, CH Y, EO 3, HE Y, LI 119, NL Y, PA 10, PE Y, \
RA 95, RES Y, SC 1, ST 80, SY 1 2, WA Y, WI 20"
As an example, to remove the preamble and postamble padding characters, and to select
no response control of the output flow, you would either enter a command line such as:
pl ot cal comp pdms. pl ot pdms. code " PA 0, RE N"
Alternatively, you could create the equivalent soft driver to do this.
For example:
cal compx| cal comp| PA 0, RE N
The new soft driver can then be used with the command:
pl ot cal compx pdms. pl ot pdms. code
Note: PLOT includes an alternative version of the CALCOMP driver known as the
CALCOMP64 driver. The latter version has the following option defaults, almost all of
which differ from those of the standard CALCOMP driver:
Example:
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4.3 DXF
This driver outputs a plot as an AutoCAD drawing in DXF (drawing interchange) file format.
HEader filename The contents of the supplied filename are copied into the
DXF output file in place of the Header, Tables and Blocks
sections that would normally be generated by the driver. If
the filename is omitted, or the file cannot be read, the driver
will suppress the production of these sections. The file can
be a complete DXF file. The copy is stopped before the "0"
"SECTION" "2" "ENTITIES" sequence that starts the
Entities section.
POlylines Y/N Specifies whether the driver outputs lines and arcs as LINE
and ARC entities, or as POLYLINE entities.
Default: POLYLINES Y
UNits value Sets the type of coordinates in the DXF output file as
INCHES or MM. Default: UNITS MM
ZAxis value Selects the output of a Z value with all XY coordinates. The
value parameter defines the constant Z coordinate value.
Default: No Z coordinate.
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Example:
Description
The difference between the two drivers lies in the type of HP-GL code which each uses:
• The HP driver uses only vectors and absolute positioning, and uses straight-line chords
to simulate arcs and circles. Each draw and move operation is output on a separate
line of the file. This makes this form of the code easier to interpret.
• The HPGL driver uses vectors and relative positioning, and uses true arcs and circles.
Draw and move commands are merged together, and as many commands as possible
are put into each line of the file. These features make this the more compact code of
the two
The drivers derive the plotter model number by interrogating the device, so that they allow
for use with the HP7475 with its limited functionality. They similarly determine the paper
handling capabilities if used with an HP7586 plotter, to allow it to be used with cut-sheet as
well as roll-fed paper. They make special provision for producing long plots on roll feed
versions of the latter plotter.
Output
The output from this driver is device code which is sent directly to the HP plotter.
These drivers do not mix the two types of HP-GL command, namely graphical commands
and communication commands, within a line of output.
Files output by this driver are ASCII coded and record structured. They can be used as input
to other conversion programs to produce device code for otherwise unsupported devices.
Options
Several options are available which allow you to control the output from these drivers. You
can specify these options either directly, as PLOT command line arguments (see Running
PLOT), or indirectly, as parameters in a soft driver definition (see Creating your Own Device
Drivers).
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The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
The defaults specified in the standard HP driver are equivalent to the following options
string:
" CE N, MA 0 0 1109. 5 787. 0, ST 40, WA Y"
The defaults specified in the standard HPGL driver are equivalent to the following options
string:
" CE N, HI , MA, ST 40, WA Y"
Note: All of the options are applicable when the plot output is sent to a file, but only the
HIGH and WAIT options apply when the plot is sent directly to a plotter .
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Example
pl ot hp vi ew. pl pl ot 1. pl t
(output to a file)
pl ot hp vi ew. pl - 1
pl ot hpgl vi ew. pl pl ot 1. pl t
(output to a file)
pl ot hpgl vi ew. pl - 1
4.5 HPGL2
This driver supports HP-GL/2, which is the standardised version of the Hewlett-Packard
Graphical language. This attempts to provide a consistent functionality between plotters and
caters for pen, monochrome and colour electrostatic and other devices. The code is
compact, especially for vectors that have a special encoding scheme. HP-GL/2 is a binary
format.
Although HPGL and HP-GL/2 are related, HP-GL/2 is not a strict superset of HPGL. It is
best for most purposes to regard them as being entirely different.
HP-GL/2 is often available in Dual-Context plotters that also have Hewlett-Packard's PCL.
The HP-GL/2 behaves differently under these conditions and a driver option for PCL is
necessary to ensure correct behaviour.
Options
These options enable you to control the output of this driver. You can specify these options
either directly, as PLOT command line arguments (see Running PLOT), or indirectly, as
parameters in soft driver definition (see Creating your Own Device Drivers ).
The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
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[Key : Y/N = Yes or No ; x y etc. coordinates in mm and other values; n and pen are
integers.]
The defaults specified in the standard HP-GL/2 driver are equivalent to the following options
string:
" CO 1, EC N, MAP, PCL Y, PW 0. 0 0. 35, QU 100, RO 0"
Example:
pl ot hpgl 2 vi ew. pl pl ot 1. pl t
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4.6 HOUSTON
Models
This driver supports the Houston Hiplot DMP-40 and DMP-42 pen plotters. These are drum
plotters with media movement and registration controlled by knurled gripping areas of the
drum; they take A3 and A1 media sizes, respectively.
These plotters use Houston DM/PL III firmware, which is upwardly compatible with DM/PL
and DM/PL+.
Description
The DM/PL device code produced by the driver for these plotters is based on simple
absolute positioning and drawing commands and assumes that there is a single pen.
Output
Files output by this driver are not record structured, but contain ASCII codes. They are used
only for maintenance purposes.
Options
None.
Example:
4.7 LASERJET
Models
This driver produces output suitable for any printer that can interpret Hewlett-Packard’s PCL
page description language, such as the Laserjet Series II devices.
Laserjet printers have a maximum resolution of 300 dots per inch (dpi), but can also work at
150, 100 or 75 dpi
Description
Laserjet and compatible printers may be used to produce black and white hard copy from
graphical plot files. The PCL language has no facilities for expressing graphical elements
such as vectors; it provides instead a group of raster graphics commands.
Output
The output from this driver is in device code that may be sent directly to any PCL-compatible
laser printer. Where the output is to a file, it contains the complete PCL code needed to
reproduce the printable document defined by the pseudo-code plot file. This comprises a
mixture of PCL command escape sequences and 8-bit data that is not formatted and not
easy to inspect.
The Laser j et dr i ver uses compr ess i on t echni ques t o r educe t he
si ze of i t s out put f i l es and, hence, t he t i me needed t o send
t hem t o t he pr i nt er . Fur t her r educt i ons i n f i l e si ze and dat
a t r ansf er t i me may be achi eved by speci f yi ng a l ower r ast er
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Options
You can specify the LASERJET driver options either directly, as PLOT command line
arguments (see Running PLOT), or indirectly, as parameters in a soft driver definition (see
Creating your Own Device Drivers ).
The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
DPi integer Sets the printer resolution to integer dots per inch, where
integer may be 300, 150, 100 or 75. The default is 150 dpi,
which usually gives a suitable compromise between image
quality, file size and data transmission speed.
Example:
pl ot l aser j et vi ew. pl pl ot 1. pl t
(output to a file)
pl ot l aser j et vi ew. pl - 1
4.8 LIST
The LIST driver differs from the others in that it does not translate input plot file data into a
different format, but instead provides summarised information about the overall content of
the file.
The information derived from the file includes:
• The pseudo-code format in which the file is written (PDMS, HPGL, HP-GL/2, DXF or
GPGP)
• The file header block
• Details of the drawing in the file, namely:
• The drawing number, with its identifying number in brackets if it is a GPGP file
• The dimensions of the drawing, in mm
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Prefix References
none unreferenced
+ once
* one or more times
The information may be sent to an ASCII file, or it may be listed at your command prompt
window (by specifying output to line 0).
For example, the command:
pl ot l i st pdmspl ot . pl - 0
This would list the content of the pseudo-code plot file avevaplot.pl, containing an A1
drawing, thus:
I nt er pr et er : PDMS
Fi l e Header : pi per 18/ 07/ 04 12. 25
Dr awi ng: 1
Si ze 841 by 594 MM
Vect or s 3403
Pens 1 2
The list driver does not use any options but will display any that are specified on the
command line or from a soft driver as a combined options string.
4.9 PDMS
Models
This driver generates output in PDMS plot file format.
Description
This file format (which is also one of PLOT’s valid input formats) is intended primarily for
transferring graphical data between the modules of PDMS. PLOT’s output driver also allows
you to transfer data to PDMS from other sources that generate HPGL or GPGP formatted
graphics.
Output
Files output by the plotting driver are in binary format and comprise a textual header block
followed by the graphical data.
The header block contains:
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• A user identifier -
- up to 6 characters - derived from the login user name (truncated if
longer than 6 characters).
• The current date - in the format DDMMYY
DDMMY Y.
• The current time - in the format HHMM.
The graphical data is a sequence of coded items, including pen moving and drawing
commands, pen changes, and paper size definitions. The code is made more efficient by
the provision of special codes for short line drawing and moving operations, and for drawing
horizontal or vertical lines.
Options
None.
Example:
4.10 PENMA N
Models
This driver outputs directly to the Penman Turtle Plotter.
Description
The Turtle plotter has a pen with an up/down mechanism mounted on a wheeled carriage
that is connected for power and control via a flying cable. It uses a home marker that it can
detect optically to register its origin.
Output
The output from this driver is device code that is sent directly to the Turtle plotter. The device
code uses simple absolute positioning and drawing commands. Periodic returns to the
origin, to re-establish a datum point, limit the build up of positional errors during plotting.
Files output by this driver are ASCII coded and record structured. They are used only for
maintenance purposes.
Options
None.
Example:
pl ot penm
penman vi ew. pl - 1
4.11 PNG
Models
This driver generates output in PNG file format.
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Description
The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format is a patent-free replacement for GIF and can
also replace many common uses of TIFF. It provides a means for the lossless, portable
storage of well-compressed raster images.
PNG is designed to work well in online viewing applications, such as the World Wide Web,
and for user interface and general usage.
Note that the standard PLOTDRIVERS file changes the default for this driver to use PDMS
colours. To find out how to restore the colours to their previous state and other details about
modifying the default options of the built-in drivers see the section on creating your own
device drivers.
Output
Files output by the PNG driver are in binary format.
Options
The syntax for each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by commas):
BItmap width height Defines the size of the bitmap image in pixels. Sizes should
be greater than 16 x 16 and the upper size limit is 8000 x
8000. The default size is 600 x 400.
LAyout type Defines how the image is placed in the bitmap, where type is
one of the following:
FIT reduces the width or height of the bitmap so that it fits
the image exactly. This is the default.
CENtre places the image in the centre of the bitmap.
CORner places the image at the top left corner of the
bitmap.
RGb pen r g b Selects colour mode and defines the red/green/blue colour
mix for the specified logical pen number (pen must be in the
range 0-15). The colour values are in the range 0 to 1. The
background colour of the image is black by default but this
can be changed by defining pen 0, e.g. RGB 0 1 1 1 sets it to
white.
SIze width height Defines the minimum plot size in millimetres that is scaled to
fill the bitmap image. Increasing the size of a number of plots
to a common value means that their pixel scaling is also the
same. This is important if the bitmap files are to be
manipulated by other programs.
TRan Sets the image background to be transparent.
Example:
pl ot png
png i n. dxf out
out . png
png " BI TMAP 32 32"
4.12 POSTSCRIPT or PS
PS
(The POSTSCRIPT and PS drivers are identical.)
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Models
These drivers produce output suitable for any printer that can interpret the Postscript page
description language.
The driver default options give output suitable for immediate use with the commonest laser
printers, which take A4 paper and which produce monochrome and grey-scale output at a
resolution of 300 dots per inch (for example, the QMS-810 printer).
The drivers provide a very wide range of options that may be used with PLOT’s soft driver
facility to create drivers for other forms of Postscript output (see Creating your Own Device
Drivers). For example, printers with different paper sizes or with paper tray selection.
Description
Postscript is a widely used page description language that efficiently describes the
appearance of text, images and drawings on the printed page.
Output
The output from these drivers is an ASCII record structured file that conforms to the
standard structuring conventions for Postscript multiple page documents. It contains the
complete Postscript program needed to print the document defined by the input pseudo
code file.
The output is in device code that may be sent directly to the laser printer or may be included
in another document as an illustration. The laser printer is treated as a plotter with a single
pen, grey-scale pens or colour pens, which can draw vectors in all line styles for both normal
and thick lines.
The drawing is scaled to form an image that fills the specified paper size, with options to set
margin widths, page orientation, and so on. Other options allow you to control features such
as a summarising banner page, page headers and footers, and page layout.
It may be useful to override the parameters of this driver in the PLOTDRIVERS file, for
example to use PDMS colours by default. See the description of this file for further details.
Options
The POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers provide many options. You can specify these either directly,
as PLOT command line arguments (see Running PLOT), or indirectly, as parameters in a
soft driver definition (see Creating your Own Device Drivers ).
For convenience, the descriptions of the driver options are split into two functional groups:
• Layout options , which control the overall page presentation.
• General options , which control the banner page and the detailed graphics plotting
(including monochrome/grey-scale/colour, scaling, resolution, etc.).
The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
[Key : int = an integer; string = a text string]
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LAyout type Defines the output page layout as type, where type is one of
the following:
Drawing - this produces a PostScript file that takes dimensions from
the input plot file and the output is matched to the input. It is
unscaled and is not rotated. This layout is suitable for use
when a PostScript file is to be used later to produce a pdf
file.
Landscape - uses the whole page for graphics. The drawing is rotated by
90 degrees and is positioned into the bottom right-hand
corner of the image area of the page. If the width and height
allow it the drawing will be output unscaled and the message
'1:1 SCALE' is displayed and is repeated in the annotation of
the output file. If the drawing is oversize it will be rescaled to
fill the page (retaining the original width/height ratio).
The output file is a complete PostScript document that may
contain many pages and may start with a banner page.
The values from the MAP option are used directly with this
option. There are no margin or other adjustment factors. The
positioning is applied before the rotation, its x values
increase to the right, and y values increase upwards.
Portrait - this is identical to the Landscape layout except that it is
positioned into the bottom left-hand corner of the image area
of the page and there is no rotation of the drawing.
Whole - uses the whole page for graphics, except for a 7 mm margin
on all four sides. The drawing is rescaled (retaining the
original width/height ratio) and rotated to fill the page as
efficiently as possible. The output file is a complete
PostScript document that may contain many pages and may
start with a banner page.
Margin - uses the whole page for graphics, except for a 26 mm
margin on all four sides (to allow for punch holes and
header/footer texts, etc.). The drawing is rescaled (retaining
the original width/height ratio) and rotated to fill the page as
efficiently as possible. The output file is a complete
Postscript document that may contain many pages and may
start with a banner page.
Figure - this layout is identical to MARGIN, except that the drawing is
not rotated.
Include - produces a file suitable for inclusion in another PostScript
document. The layout is identical to FIGURE, but the file
contains none of the general Postscript commands to print
pages etc. (since these will be provided by the document in
which the file is included).
The LAYOUT MARGIN and LAYOUT FIGURE settings provide locations for three header
texts and three footer texts at the left, centre and right of the page, in the top and bottom
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Note: If a header or footer text is to include spaces, string must be enclosed between
single quotes.
You may include the following special characters within header and footer texts:
# is replaced in the printed output by the current page number (with pages being
numbered automatically, starting from a number which you may define).
PAge in t Defines an initial page number for the translation of the # character when
using automatic page numbering. The default is PAGE 1.
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General Option s
BAnn er Y/N Specifies whether or not a banner page is output at the head
of the document. Default: BA Y
EOt Y/N Specifies whether the EOT character is output at the end of
the PostScript file. This is a communication character
required previously for direct operation of a printer but may
need to be omitted when a print spooler is being used.
Default: EOT Y
IGraphics Y/N Allows the use of the initgraphics command. (You should not
normally need to change this setting.) Default: IG N
PType string Sets page type to string. Where string is a sequence of
printer specific PostScript commands to be inserted into the
output file at the point where paper size and tray selection
might take place. This option does not affect anything else
(e.g. scaling).
For example, below is an example of the PostScript
command to set up a printer to select a particular paper try,
perhaps one containing A3 sized paper. The PostScript
string used with PTYPE is not standard and needs to be
obtained for each model of printer. Below are two examples
showing how the printer specific commands might look like
to select a particular tray and to select manual feed.
PTYPE 'statusdict begin 2 setpapertray end'
PTYPE 'statusdict begin /manualfeed true def end'
Default: PT
MAp x y val1 val2 Defines the position of the plot on the paper (x and y
coordinates of its origin expressed in mm). It defines the plot
dimensions as val1 wide by val2 high. Default: MA 0 0 283.6
197.3
STeps val Sets the printer steps per inch (i.e. the printer resolution) to
val. Default: ST 300
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BAnn er Y/N Specifies whether or not a banner page is output at the head
of the document. Default: BA Y
Default colour representation: MONO
RGb pen r g b Selects RGB colour mode and defines the red/green/blue
colour mix for the specified logical pen number ( pen must
be in the range 0-15).
Default: The colours of the graphics screen device (see
following table).
0 White 1 1 1
1 Black 0 0 0
2 Orange 1 0.5 0
3 Green 0 1 0
4 Red 1 0 0
5 Blue 0 0.78 1
6 Magenta 0.78 0 1
7 Yellow 1 1 0
8 Sand 1 0.78 0
9 Yellow 1 1 0
10 Cyan 0 1 1
11 Indig 0 0 1
12 Violet 0.5 0 0.5
13 Light Grey 0.75 0.75 0.75
14 Mid Grey 0.5 0.5 0.5
15 Dark Grey 0.25 0.25 0.25
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FOntname string This specifies the font name to be used for text. It is present
in the plot file (not as vectors) if the HIGH option is selected.
This font is also used for the user name on the banner page.
Default: FONT Courier
FLush Changes the format of the output file so that a new line is
used for each graphical primitive instead of packing each
output line. The resulting output file is slightly larger as a
result. Default: Not selected.
HIgh Specifies that higher-level primitives may be used for text
and other output. Default: Not selected.
Example:
pl ot ps vi ew. pl f i g1. ps
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Models
The SCREEN driver displays plot files on a workstation graphics screen.
Description
This driver provides a convenient plot file viewing facility, allowing you to preview your plot
files before plotting or printing hard copies.
Output
This driver always creates a new graphics window to view the input plot file. There is no
output file and -0 takes its place on the command line. If the output drawing comprises more
than one page, the display pauses at each page until you press a key or button.
User Interaction
The SCREEN driver is an interactive plot viewer with zoom and pan actions under mouse
control with appropriate cursors and 'rubber-banding'. To use the viewer:
• To pan the vi ew by a specifi ed distance , press and hold down the left mouse button
while you move the mouse. Release the button to pan the view by a specified distance.
A cursor 'rubber-band' shows you the move while you are holding the button.
• As an alt ern ati ve to sc ro ll bar s press and release the left mouse button without
moving the mouse to 'snap' the current point under the cursor to the centre of the
screen.
• To select a new view , press and hold down the middle button of your mouse while you
move it between the opposite corners of its boundary.
• To snap the curr ent point to the centre of the screen and then zoom in by a fix ed
amount , press and then release the middle mouse button (without moving the mouse).
• Snap the current point to the centre of the screen and then zoom out by a fixed
amount , press and release the right mouse button without moving the mouse.
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Key/button Description
Note: For a 2-button mouse the effect of the middle button can be achieved by pressing
both buttons together.
Options
Note that the standard PLOTDRIVERS file changes the default for this driver to use PDMS
colours. To find out how to restore the colours to their previous state and other details about
modifying the default options of built-in drivers see the section on creating your own device
drivers.
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The syntax for using each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by
commas):
MAp x y v al1 val2 Defines the position of the plot on the screen (x and y
coordinates of its origin expressed in pixels). It defines the
graphics window dimensions as val1 pixels wide by val2
pixels high. Default: To match the graphics screen device.
CUrsor n Sets the long cursor pen number and must be in the range
1-15. The default value is 4.
RGb pen r g b Defines the red/green/blue colour mix for the specified
logical pen number ( pen must be in the range 0-15).
Default: The colours of the graphics screen device (see
following table).
Example:
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4.14 XDUMP
This driver outputs the plot to a specially formatted bitmap image file, such as that produced
by the X-Windows utility, xwd and displayed by xwud.
Description
This driver produces a bitmap image file. This is always a single plane image that
represents the plot in monochrome, with the graphics from all pens drawn in the foreground
colour.
This form of output file can be used to compare whether two plots look the same, regardless
of overdrawing and the order in which the graphical elements are drawn.
Output
Files output by this driver are in binary format and consist of a header and data sections.
See the X-Windows and xwd utility for references to its format definition.
The drawing is scaled to a size that fills the bitmap. It is automatically rotated by 90 degrees
if this makes better use of the available area.
Options
The syntax for each option is as follows (individual options must be separated by commas):
BItmap width height Defines the size of the bitmap image in pixels. Sizes should
be greater than 100 x 100. The default size is 1000 x 800,
and the upper size limit is 9600 x 5000.
Size width height Defines the minimum plot size in millimetres that is scaled to
fill the bitmap image. Increasing the size of a number of
plots to a common value means that their pixel scaling is
also the same. This is important if the bitmap files are to be
manipulated by other programs.
Example:
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option description
The drivers are listed below in alphabetic order. The driver specific options can be
abbreviated to 2 or more characters, except where specified otherwise.
BENSON Driver
No options
Default
BU 16,CH Y,EO 3,HE Y,LI 119,NL Y,PA 10,PE Y,RA 95, RES Y,SC 1,ST 80,SY 1 2,WA Y,WI
20
option description
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option description
CALCOMP64 Driver
DXF Driver
Default
POLY Y,UNITS MM
option description
HOUSTON Driver
No options
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HP Driver
Default
CEN N,MAP,STEPS 40,WAIT Y
option description
HP7580B Driver
This is an alternative name for the HP driver.
HPGL Driver
This is equivalent to the HPGL with the follo wing opt ions
CEN NO,HIGH,MAP,STEPS 40,WAIT Y
HPGL2 Driver
Default
COP 1,ECUT N,FF Y,MAP,PCL Y,PWI 0.0 0.35,QUA 100,ROT 0
option description
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Default
option description
Default
COP 1,DPI 150
option description
LIST Driver
No options
PDMS Driver
No options
PEGS Driver
Default
LAYERS 11 20 11 20,POLY Y,TSCALE 1.0
option description
PENMAN Driver
No options
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PNG Driver
Default
BITMAP 600 400,LAY FIT
option description
Default
BA N,EOT Y,LAY L,MAP 0 0 283.6333 197.2733,MONO, IG N,PT,STEPS 300
option description
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option description
PS Driver
This is an alternative name for POSTSCRIPT
SCREEN Driver
Default
DEV 13
option description
XDUMP Driver
Default
BITMAP 1000 800
option description
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This revision of the manual has a number of objectives. It starts by describing a number of
new features that have been introduced to the Plot Utility Program. Content that no longer
reflected printing and plotting practice on current platforms has been revised replaced or
removed. There has also been a general revision of the document to improve details of the
layout to make the text easier to read.
Here is a summary of the changes:
• Added Driver Quick Reference to provide a quick reference to all the driver options.
• Added Changes to this Manual (this one) to summarise the changes to the manual.
• Driver Defaults:
The PLOTDRIVERS file can now be used to change the default parameters of built-in
drivers.
The directory containing the Plot Utility Program has been added as an extra place to
look for the PLOTDRIVERS file. This means that soft drivers are much easier to
configure and use.
The Screen and PNG drivers are set to the default PDMS colours in the standard
PLOTDRIVERS file. The previous driver colours can be restored by commenting out
these lines in the file.
• Screen Driver:
The standard PLOTDRIVERS file now changes this driver to use PDMS colours by
default.
New option to set the cursor pen number.
New ISO cursor style is available.
Added the description of a desktop drag and drop shortcut.
• PostScript Driver:
Added the LAYOUT D option to the driver to create PostScript files for conversion to
PDF files easier.
Changed the PTYPE examples to avoid ambiguity.
• PNG Driver:
The standard PLOTDRIVERS file now changes this driver to use PDMS colours by
default.
The background colour can be changed by setting the colour of pen 0.
• Details of the PLOT.MF messages file directory search have been corrected.
• References to the Unix specific run_plot script have been removed.
• Details about serial line operation have been withdrawn.
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Numerics D
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:8 Dates (in Postscript files) . . . . . . . . . . . 4:17
Dekink filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
A DEKINK command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
Dividing plots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
Adding a border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7 DPI command (LASERJET driver) . . . . 4:11
ADJUST command (general) . . . . . . . . . 3:3 driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:12
ARCSIZE command (general) . . . . . . . . 3:3 Drivers, output device See individual named
ATTR command (general) . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 3:1
,
B E
BANNER command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) ECUTTER command (HP-GL/2 drivers) 4:9
4:18 EOM command (CALCOMP driver) . . . . 4:3
BC command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17 Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:10
BENSON driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2
BITMAP command (XDUMP driver) 4:14 4:24 ,
F
BL command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17
Border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7 FLUSH command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers)
BORDER option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:7 4:20
BR command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17 FONTNAME command (POSTSCRIPT/PS driv-
BUFFER command (CALCOMP driver) . 4:3 ers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:20
C G
CALCOMP driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:2 GPGP pseudo-code . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 3:2 ,
HEADER command (DXF driver) . . . . . . 4:5 PCL command (HP-GL/2 drivers) . . . . . 4:9
HEADER option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:5 Pen numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
Help with syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:11 PENMAN driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:13
HIGH command (HP/HPGL drivers) . . . . 4:7 PENS command (general) . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4
HIGH command (HP-GL/2 drivers) . . . . . 4:9 Plot command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:1
HIGH command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) Plot splitting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:6
4:20 Plot option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:11
HOUSTON driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:10 PLOTDRIVERS file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:8
HP driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:6 PLOYLINES command (DXF driver) . . . 4:5
HPGL driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:6 POSTSCRIPT driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:14
HPGL pseudo-code . . . . . . . . . 2:1 2:3 3:2 , , PS driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:14
HP-GL/2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1 pseudo-code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:1 3:2 ,
L
R
LASERJET driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:10
LAYOUT command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) RADIX command (CALCOMP driver) . . 4:3
4:16 Reducing file size:Dekink filter . . . . . . . . 3:5
LINE command (CALCOMP driver) . . . . 4:3 RESPONSE command (CALCOMP driver) 4:4
Line styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 RGB command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers)
Line widths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:4 4:18
LIST driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:12 4:11
, RGB command (SCREEN driver) . . . . 4:23
ROTATE command (HP-GL/2 drivers) . . 4:9
M
S
MAP command (HP/HPGL drivers) . . . . 4:7
MAP command (HP-GL/2 drivers) . . . . . 4:9 SCALE command (CALCOMP driver) . . 4:4
MAP command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) SCALE command (general) . . . . . . . . . . 3:3
4:18 Scaling the plot:to suit graphics . . . . . . . 3:3
MAP command (SCREEN driver) . . . . . 4:23 Scaling the plot:to suit paper size . . . . . 3:3
Messages, error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:10 SCREEN driver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:21
Messages, modifying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:11 SIZE command (XDUMP driver) . 4:14 4:24 ,
O T
Output files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:2 TC command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17
TL command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17
P TR command (POSTSCRIPT/PS drivers) 4:17
Travel method:Dekink filter . . . . . . . . . . 3:5
PAD command (CALCOMP driver) . . . . . 4:3
Page numbers (in Postscript files) . . . . 4:17