HPGL is initially a command language for plotters of Hewlett-Packard. Because all CAD systems support plotters it becomes a simple way to send data from CAD systems to 2D systems like word processors or imaging tools.
Since a couple of years HPGL is less supported. Drivers for windows are not supported. Word doesn't include a HPGL filter since release 97.
Tools
SPLOT 
is a program to display HPGL files on DOS or Windows. Other interesting links about HPGL on this site
Autoset Products Conversion of DXF to word processing formats (ps, pdf, ai). They also have converter for HPGL to pdf.
hp2xx.html at hpfrs6.physik This utility will converts files for hp to various formats.(mf, em, epic, eps, pcl, img, pbm,pcx).
TMS Products also converters from HPGL to various formats like CGM, DWF, SVF, MPP and Adobe Acrobat for the web and Illustrator, DWG, DXF, IGES.
Inso Corporation Have tools helping to insert HPGL documents into word 97. The product is called ImageStream97
.
HPGLEXP converts complex HPGL files into simple ones which use only very basic HPGL commands.
The Square One site Products and filters for files conversion.
Check our Drivers page
HP-GL and HP-GL/2 are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company .
DXF
is initially for Autocad of Autodesk. Both the fact that it is simple and that many CAD vendors want to compete with Autodesk turn it into a de facto standard.
Standards
used in the CADCAM field.
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