Article - CS229026

Publishing SolidWorks Drawing to the PLT format using HPGL printer drivers for Microsoft Windows 64-bit operating systems display poorly in Creo View

Modified: 17-Apr-2019   


Applies To

  • Creo View Adapters 3.0 to 5.1
  • Creo View 1.0 to 6.0
  • Dassault SolidWorks - All releases
  • Microsoft Windows 64-bit - All releases
  • HPGL/2 Printer Drivers

Description

  • Publishing of HPGL/2 (PLT) Drawing viewables from SolidWorks using a Windows 64-bit HPGL Printer Driver is not resulting in good quality drawing display in Creo View
  • This affect but is not limited to the following 64-bit drivers:
    • HP Designjet 4500ps HP-GL/2
    • HP PageWide XL 8000PS HPGL2
  • As the HP website showing the HPGL drivers for Windows 7. Does the Creo View Adapter also supports the HPGL drivers for Windows 7?
  • Does the Creo View Adapters supports HPGL drivers on Windows 8.1?
  • Text is badly displayed when opening an HPGL (.plt) file
  • The same PLT file is correctly displayed in other Viewers (i.e: ABViewer)
  • Text is NOT displayed as in the source file
     
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