HP 8753D - Page 188

Outputting Multiple
Plots to
a Single
Page
Using a
Printer
Refer
to
the
\Plotting
Multiple Measurements
Per
Page
Using a
Disk Drive
," located
earlier in
this
chapter
,
for
the
naming
conventions for
plot les
that you
want printed
on the
same page
.
Y
ou
can
use
the
following
batch le
to automate
the plot
le printing.
This batch
le must
be
saved
as
\do
plot.bat."
rem
rem Name:
do
plot
rem
rem
Description:
rem
rem
output
HPGL
initialization
sequence
to
a
le:spooler
rem
append
all
the
requested
plot
les
to
the
spooler
rem
append
the
formfeed
sequence
to
the
spooler
rem
copy
the
le
to
the
printer
rem
rem
(This
routine
uses
COPY
instead
of
PRINT
because
COPY
rem will
not
return
until
the
action
is
completed.
PRINT
rem will
queue the
le
so
the
subsequent
DEL
will
likely
rem generate
an error
.
COPY
avoids
this
.)
rem
echo
o
type
hpglinit
>
spooler
for
%%i
in
(%1)
do
type
%%i
>>
spooler
type
exithpgl
>>
spooler
copy
spooler
LPT1
del
spooler
echo
on
F
or
example
,
you
have
the
following
list
of
les
to
plot:
PLOT00.LL
PLOT00.LU
PLOT00.RL
PLOT00.RU
You would invoke the
batch print as follows:
C:> do_plot PLOT00.*
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