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Building a Postscript printer?
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:35:30 GMT
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Hello,
I'm completely new to the Lego Mindstorms scene. I was
thinking about getting RIS 1.5 this summer, and one cool
project I was thinking about was building a robot
that could be used as a printer or plotter of vector graphics
e.g., Postscript, or the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Markup Language from www.w3.org.
The system would consist of a main driver running on
a PC controlling the robot which would basically
hold the pens and which would move over chart paper.
Anyone tried anything similar? Any comments on
feasibility? Is it possible for the driver on the PC to
continually talk to the RCX after the initial download
of the RCX program?
Thanks in advance,
Manoj
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Building a Postscript printer?
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| (...) I don't know where the fun is for you, in the mechanics and programming of the RCX or in the conversion Postscript -> Plotter commands. If it's the first part you might want to look for a converter from Postscript to some simple Plotter (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Building a Postscript printer?
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| (...) You're going to want to use GhostScript for your PostScript interpreter. It already does a good job of interpreting PostScript, so you don't have to write one from the ground up. Then all you have to do is put definitions into the main (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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