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- PCBPSPLT is a filter to read the output from PCBPRINT (microsoft!randyn's
- printed circuit board router) and generate PostScript for an apple
- laserwriter from that.
-
- PCBPSPLT takes no arguments. To use it, just redirect the output files (one at
- a time) from PCBPRINT into PCBPSPLT, and pipe stdout to a PostScript
- printer.
-
- PCBPSPLT operates as follows:
- 1. if a file named "PCBPSPLT.PRO" exists in your current directory,
- that file is prepended.
- 2. The input lines are translated into PostScript format. A crude
- attempt is made to center the drawing on the page, based on
- the DIMENSION information.
- 3. If a file named "PCBPSPLT.EPI" exists in your current directory,
- that file is appended.
-
- Normally, PCBPSPLT.PRO contains any necessary setup information that you might
- need. For example, our UNIX printer spooler needs "%!\n" as the first
- line in the file to decide that the file contains PostScript and not
- just ascii text. It could be used to adjust scaling, rotation, and
- other transformations as well.
-
- Normally, PCBPSPLT.EPI just does a showpage, but it could also add titles,
- etc.
-
- The source is fairly simple, and could easily be used to generate other
- plotting formats.
-
- Happy plotting! Dave Schmidt, WB7RDI (amc!daves)