Wayne,

It's not all that hard to create HPGL. HP has some pretty decent developer references available for it.

I did a lot of creating HPGL/2 output from FoxPro. You just build your strings and use ??? to send them to the engraver (assuming it's connected as a printer to the PC). Otherwise you can output the commands to a file and then ship the file to the engraver.

>I want to control the engraver so I can produce the tags automatically from an existing application. The engraver speaks HPGL (just HPGL, not HPGL/2).
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>All I can find are;
>1) Apps that will read HPGL and display it
>2) Apps like a CAD program that will internally produce HPGL files
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>I can find no printer driver... or system where I can send a picture or a design and have it produce HPGL. I am considering creating one - something that will produce HPGL based on a certain layout. But there HAS to be something out there - because the CAD programs do it. I just can't find it.
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>Has anyone ever done anything like this? The engraver is just like a Plotter, etc. It just moves the 'pen' to one x,y coordinate and tells it to go down and write/engrave to another x,y coordinate.