Hey Mike have you ever looked at adobe arcobat exchange as a way of getting your information on-line?  We
use it here and it is fantastic.  Sorry I can help about your printing problem but as far as the on-line
archive I can help you a great deal.  E-mail me back if I can help, but if I am barking up the wrong tree
sorry about wasting your time.

Mike Gish
Ditron Manufacturing, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ

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> I have recently configured a Xerox 8825 plotter for use with Mentor
> Graphics.
> I am using Helvetica-Scaled font within Mentor Graphics.  The display of
> the
> text and graphics is great.  Plotting from within Mentor Graphics is
> acceptable.
> However, the plot seems to use a different font, or aspect ratio when I try
> to view
> an exported hpgl or postscript plot with an external viewer, such as
> Myriad,
> AutoVue, or CAM350.  The characters become almost unreadable.  They are
> overlapping each other also.  When the rotate option is used when exporting
> a plotfile, it is a totally different plot.
>
> I would like to eliminate paper archives, and only use electronic plotfile
> archives, viewable with any external viewer.
>
> Is anyone else using these 2 together?  Is anyone using the Xerox 8825
> successfully?  Is anyone plotting from Mentor Graphics successfully?
> Is the Helvetical-Scaled giving me my problem?
>
> Maybe someone from Mentor Graphics or Xerox would like to comment?
>
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