SPLOT version 5.20 with integrated ZIP and SPLOT archive format support.
The SPLOT program is a highly effective tool intended for simulating
the HP-GL/2, HP-GL, HP-RTL,
or DXY-GL plotters on the display of your PC. A partial support
of the PCL language is also provided. The SPLOT program is the very thing you need to make your work
with the plotter more effective. The SPLOT program will give you a guarantee you will always
draw on your plotter what you really want. That is why it will save your
nerves, your time, your plotter, pens, ink and paper, that means your money.
SPLOT software is based on more than 20 years of the author's experience with the plotter formats.
The author owns a huge collection of plotter files collected many years from many sources (mainly from the users).
SPLOT software is constantly and attentively tested with these files. This ensures that the SPLOT software has
the highest degree of the HP-GL/2, HP-GL and HP-RTL compatibility.
If you are looking for a fast, highly reliable and stable plot file viewer and converter, then SPLOT should be
your choice number one.
If you will have any problems, errors or questions with using SPLOT please don't hesitate to e-mail me!
Also feel free to send me (zipped and attached to e-mail) any your HP-GL, HP-GL/2 or HP-RTL file(s) if you think
they are not displayed correctly with SPLOT.
To work with his plotter in the WYSIWYG style (What You See Is What You Get).
To develop his own plotter program applications. You can reach it with the SPLOT program easily even if you do not own the plotter at all!
To use his printer as a plotter occasionally or constantly. In many cases using a printer may be faster and moreover, this may be an alternative of a high quality.
To program a printer in graphics mode and at a high level and who does not want to develop complicated software which would enable it. In these cases using the HPGL language in connection with the SPLOT program seems to be very advantageous for creating own graphics outputs. The HP-GL language can be learned very easily and in addition, it offers unexpected possibilities.
This Win32 version of the SPLOT program was tested under Windows 98/Me and Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
The recommended system is Windows 2000/XP/Vista or higher.
The evaluation version is fully functional. It is limited only by the evaluation period and an evaluation mark in the possible output (print and conversion).
You will find other information in the SPLOT on-line documentation installed with SPLOT.
If you are looking for a Windows HP-GL or HP-GL/2 plotter driver
please visit the Software Mechanics
home page. They have a plotter driver named WinLINE which supports
wide range of the HPGL and HPGL/2 plotters and works under all kinds of Windows (Win9x/Me, WinNT4/2000/XP).