Purpose
Opcode format | Opcode | Operand Format | Comments |
Extended ASCII | (PlotInfo | <ws><TShowPaper>\
<ws><IRotation><ws><TUnits>\ <ws><FWidth><ws><FHeight>\ <ws><FLeft><ws><FBottom>\ <ws><FRight><ws><FTop><ws>\ ((<FM00><ws><FM01><ws><FM02>)\ (<FM10><ws><FM11><ws><FM12>)\ (<FM20>><ws><FM21><ws><FM22>))[<ws>]) |
Scale of logical coordinates |
Rotation integer rotation angle (i.e., 0, 90, 180, 270) that indicates whether the data has been pre-rotated so that it will print in a "normal" (portrait, i.e., angle = 0) or "flipped" (landscape, i.e., angle = 90) orientation.
Units ASCII string label that indicates the unit of measure of the floating point parameters of the opcode. Legal values are "in" (inches) or "mm" (millimeters).
Width The width dimension of paper in paper units
Height The height dimension of paper in paper units
Left The distance, in paper units, from the left edge of the paper to the left boundary of the printable area
Bottom The distance, in paper units, from the bottom edge of the paper to the bottom boundary of the printable area
Right The distance, in paper units, from the left edge of the paper to the right bounday of the printable area
Top The distance, in paper units, from the bottom edge of the paper to the top boundary of the printable area
Mxy ASCII representation of a floating-point or a double-precision floating point number that defines an element of the coordinate mapping matrix from WHIP! data coordinates to paper coordinates with the origin at the left bottom corner of the printable area
PlotInfo from WHIP! data optimized for plotting, 400 DPI, ANSI full bleed A size paper(PlotInfo hide 90 in 10.99999976 8.4999997597 0.031250480592 0.031249999531
10.96874976 8.4687498799
((0.0025 0 0)
(0 0.0025 0)
(0 0 1)))Following are some notes on the preceding PlotInfo values:
- ShowPaper = hide
- AutoCAD plot rotation = 90 degrees
- media units = Inches
- Media Width, Height = 10.99999976" x 8.4999997597" (11 x 8.5")
- Printable area left, bottom = 0.03125, 0.03125"
- Printable area right, top = 10.9687..., 8.46874..."
- The coordinate mapping matrix says X scale factor = Y scale factor = 0.0025 (that is, 1/400 because this is 400 DPI WHIP! data), there is 0 X and Y offset, and the matrix does not apply any rotation.
PlotInfo from the same drawing, plotted "optimized for viewing" on "ANSI expand A" paper(PlotInfo hide 90 in 10.99999976 8.4999997597 0.42495126799 0.22810038619
10.57504898 8.2718994862
((8.5513417464e-005 0 0)
(0 8.5513417464e-005 0)
(0 0 1)))Note: The printable area has gotten smaller with the change in media size, and the X and Y scaling factors are much smaller - this corresponds to 11,694.07 DPI.