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HP-GL Viewer

General Information

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The HP-GL viewer developed at CERN provides fast and accurate display of HP-GL and HP-GL/2 files on a number of platforms and operating systems. It has an intuitive graphical interface and can be used to display, print, and convert files from HP-GL and HP-GL/2 to PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, DXF, or CGM. It is available for various Unix, PC-Windows and MacIntosh platforms. The latest version is 5.43.
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Documentation  Feature history of all viewer versions 
User's Guide (version 5.43) 
Frequently Asked Questions 
Examples on how to perform some viewer operations. 

Availability at CERN  The HP-GL viewer is centrally distributed (Windows and Linux) or downloadable (Mac). See the CERN Installation Guide. 

Availability outside CERN  While in the past the CERN HP-GL viewer was sold commercially outside of the High Energy Physics community, it is nowadays distributed free of charge. See the Download page for available versions. 
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CERN -- HP-GL Support, modified 2012-02-07