In article <48ui1g$o0v at nntp3.u.washington.edu> joe at evolution.genetics.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein) writes:
>From: joe at evolution.genetics.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein)
>Subject: Re: Printing Trees from PHYLIP
>Date: 22 Nov 1995 07:04:16 GMT
>Summary: Deskjet won't print our PCL, use PCX or something
>Keywords: PHYLIP, tree drawing programs, file formats
>In article <48tn3g$if4 at st-james.comp.vuw.ac.nz>,
>Thomas <Thomas.Buckley at vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>>I am running PHYLIP on a 486 IBM PC with a HP desk-jet printer. I have
>>been unable to get output from DRAWTREE and DRAWGRAM to print.
>>Apparently Files from DRAWTREE and DRAWGRAM will not print on a desk-
>>jet printer. However, I have heard that such files can by imported into
>>a PC draw program, edited, and printed from there. Could anyone who
>>knows of such a program, and how to do this, please contact me.
>Deskjets can't handle the PCL we generate, apparently because of a
>context switch that we do at the beginning and end of the plot file. We
>Hope top correct that. Anyone who can recompile out programs could ask
>me for the fix, and that would be a good test of it.
>The PCX file format which we have in these programs would be readable into
>many raster-oriented paint programs. PICT might work too on some vector
>oriented drawing programs. But I am not aware of a draw or paint program
>that reads PCL.
>-----
>Joe Felsenstein joe at genetics.washington.edu (IP No. 128.95.12.41)
> Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Washington, Box 357360, Seattle, WA 98195-7360
>USA
We simply print off our Phylip PCX files through DrawPerfect using our
BubbleJet printer...
Tony
