HP-GL

File Format
Name	HP-GL
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Page description languages HP-GL
Extension(s)	.hpgl, .hpg, .hgl, .plt
PRONOM	x-fmt/83, x-fmt/293, fmt/1174

HP-GL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language, also spelled HPGL) is a printer control language developed by Hewlett-Packard. It is supported by many plotters and some printers. The newer version of it is known as HP-GL/2.

Software

• PloView
• hpgl2ps

Sample files

• hpgl2ps → *.hpgl
• dexvert samples — image/hpgl

Links

• Wikipedia article
• The HP-GL/2 and HP RTL Reference Guide (draft 2)
• Using HPGL as a drawing interchange media
• PloView: HP-GL Reference Guide
• The HP-GL Story told by Tom Tremble
• http://cstep.luberth.com/HPGL.pdf