Plotting .plt files (again)

I'm trying to plot a set of .plt files received from an Architect. They are
coming out of my HP1050C in landscape mode and they need to be portrait.
Acad 2005, WinXP Pro.
I can't spend $400+ on a program to change the orientation of the plotted
output of a .plt file. Here's the text file from one of my .plt files. Is
there anything in it that could be changed to go from Landscape to Portrait
mode? MediaSource maybe?
Dave
DDP

@PJL COMMENT -XES8- by Xerox Corporation Version 9.5.3. All Rights Reserved
@PJL JOB NAME="A100"
@PJL SET PALETTEOVERRIDE=ON
@PJL SET HPGLPALETTESOURCE=JOB
@PJL SET MM_MODE_PAPER=BLOCK
@PJL SET MEDIATYPE=PAPER
@PJL SET NESTINGMODE=OFF
@PJL SET PAPER=ANY
@PJL SET MEDIASOURCE=AUTO
@PJL SET COPIES=1
@PJL SET MARGINLEFT=0.236220
@PJL SET MARGINRIGHT=0.236220
@PJL SET MARGINTOP=0.236220
@PJL SET MARGINBOTTOM=0.236220
@PJL SET JUSTIFYX=LEFT
@PJL SET JUSTIFYY=BOTTOM
@PJL SET DOCUMENTTYPE=AUTOSELECT
@PJL SET LINESCALEMODE=OFF
@PJL SET RASTERHALFTONEOPT=ERRORDIFFUSION
@PJL SET MIRRORIMAGE=MIRROR_OFF
@PJL SET BANNERPAGEENABLE=OFF
@PJL SET LABELSHADING=0
@PJL SET LABELSTRING=""
@PJL SET RASTERSTAMPID=""
@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = HPGL2

 

What happens if you just plot something landscape, see what commands wind up
in that file, and then look at what's different between the two?

 

I didn't create the original .plt files so there would probably be lots of
things different. How ya been Scott? What are you up to these days?
Dave

 

Apparently made with a Xerox driver for a Xerox plotter. The DesignJet
will listen to some of the PJL commands in this header, but not all. The
HPGL2 code after the header is probably OK. To make the plots rotate you
need to edit the actual HPGL2 data. Open the file in an editor that will
not get choked by the extremely long HPGL2 data string (I use WinVi);
find the RO command (pretty close to the beginning) and add 90 to the
value that comes after that (RO becomes RO90, RO180, RO270). I would
also delete the whole PJL header (though the DesignJet will ignore what
it doesn't recognize).

Govert

 

have you looked at downloading a program called
"print2file" , it might give you that option, there are others also,

last resort use a diferent size paper role 24" if portrait
36" is landscape on the 1050

 

Why not turn on the rotation in your plotter? It should be able to plot
fine then.

 

Dean,
this is an ARCHITECT we're talking about....know what I mean?
Dave

 

thanks Govert. I had never opened a .plt file in a text editor before and
it's interesting that the text looks just like what I posted but if you
copy/paste it into an email then you get the HPTL2 code. In closing, I
finally bit the bullet and asked to have a hard copy of the drawings shipped
to me so I'm on to other hurdles today.

GoPlot rocks 99.9% of the time!
Dave

 

thanks Dennis, I never thought to try something so obvious.
Dave

 

oops! no offense intended

 

LOL! where do these people come from?