This page contains utilities, documentation, and downloadable versions of the CERN HP-GL / HP-GL/2 viewer. The current viewer version is 5.43.
| Packages |
Linux
Linux versions of the viewer on Intel platform. They all use Motif. Whenever possible, the Motif-libraries are statically linked so that they are not needed on the local machine for running the viewer. The vendor/OS naming of the package files reflects the build platform. The binaries themselves are expected to run fine at least on any version of the OS greater than or equal to the one shown with the exception of where old dynamic libraries might no longer be available on newer releases. Note that Enterprise Linux versions exist for both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of the operating system. To run the viewer on other Linux variants (Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, etc.), you may need to experiment on the different packages, as libraries may differ on the different platforms Linux packages as gunzipped tar-archives:
hpglview for RedHat Enterprise Linux 4, 32 bits
hpglview for SLC4, 32 bits Microsoft Windows The viewer version for Windows runs on all known variants of Windows since Windows 95. Use the "Winzip" program or a compatible unzip-utility to unpack the file. hpglview for all versions of Microsoft Windows MacOS X For MacOS X there are three viewer versions: One running on 32 bit Intel platform, another one on 64 bit Intel platform, and one on the old PowerPC platform. The viewer is an X11/Motif application similar to the Unix / Linux versions. Just mount the dmg-image and move the HpglView folder to the Applications folder. On Intel platform the viewer is packaged as a proper MacOS X application. All file associations including drag-and-drop to the application icon should work out of the box. On PowerPC platform the viewer is started by a script, which allows drag-and-drop to the application icon, but does not properly support associating the viewer file types to the application. Note for MacOS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and later: Starting from MacOS X 10.8 Apple dropped X11 server from the base distribution. As the HP-GL viewer needs X11 to run, you will need to get it separately and install it yourself on your machine. For details see Apple knowledgebase article: About X11 and OS X. The officially recommended X11 server is XQuartz. Note also that since the CERN HP-GL viewer is not an Apple-signed application, Mac Gatekeeper may block it from running in its default settings. To enable it after installing the viewer into the Applications folder, run command: sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/HpglView from a terminal window and give your password when prompted. The 32 bit Intel version supports MacOS X 10.6 and 10.7, where the native X11 from Apple is installed. It can also run on later MacOS X versions, but only under XQuartz 2.7.8 and older. Newer XQuartz versions require the 64 bit version of the viewer. The 64 bit version does not run on MacOS X 10.6 and 10.7. As the current MacOS versions are all Intel-based, to run the viewer on M1 Macs, Rosetta2 has to be installed.
hpglview for Apple MacOS X on Intel platform, 32 bits Attic: Old and deprecated unsupported versions In the parenthesis is shown the version of the HP-GL viewer in the package. Linux packages:
hpglview for RedHat Linux 6.1 (version 5.41)
hpglview for Digital OSF1 4.0 (version 5.30) A viewer version running under Classic MacOS 8 and newer is also still available for the very old fashioned. This is a self extracting file created using the "stuffit" program. Binaries for both 68000 and PowerPC architectures are included. On MacOS X the binaries can be run in the MacOS 9 compatibilty mode on OS versions that support it. hpglview for Apple MacOS Classic (version 5.41) |
| Documentation |
The following documentation file is available:
A user's guide to the viewer versions 5.43 in Adobe PDF format. |
If you have any problems retrieving or processing any of these files, please contact HP-GL Support.