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GNU plotfont is a simple utility that will produce a character map for any font available to the GNU plotting utilities graph, plot, pic2plot, and tek2plot, and the GNU libplot graphics library on which they are based.

https://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/manual/en/html_node/plotfont-Examples.html#plotfont-Examples

example:

plotfont -T hpgl HersheySans

Will produce a character map of the HersheySans in HPGL code.

The code contains all the characters and they don't seem to be separated or independant from each other. How do I get only a specific character HPGL code with plotfont? Is there an other tool that would allow me to do this?

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If you have plotfont you may have pic2plot which allows you to convert a minimal pic format picture into one of the many plot formats. For example, for the character x:

printf '.PS\n "x" \n.PE\n' | 
pic2plot -FHersheySans --font-size .5 -Thpgl

will produce something like (output split for readabilit)

BP;IN;PS10668;IP0,0,8128,8128;SC0,10000,0,10000;WU1;SP1;TR0;LT;
LA1,4,2,4;LA3,10;PW1.5214;
PA4167,5758;PM0;PD;PA5833,3636;PU;PM2;EP;
PA5833,5758;PM0;PD;PA4167,3636;PU;PM2;EP;
PA0,0;SP0;PG0;

The 2 lines beginning PA Plot Absolute are the instructions to stroke each bar of the x character.

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