Copying The Plot; Closing A Plot; Printing Plot Elements; Printing A Graph - Measurement Computing USB-5100 Series Software Help

USB-5100 Series Software Help

Copying the Plot

To copy the plot as a bitmap for pasting into other programs and documents, complete the following steps:
1. Select
Edit»Copy Graph to Clipboard
2. Go to the other application and paste the plot.

Closing a Plot

To close a single plot, click the
On Macintosh, click the red button in the upper-left corner of the internal frame containing the plot when in
Tabbed View. To close all open plots, select
Important
Any changes you made to the plot are not saved when you close the data file. You must save the plot as a
project file to preserve the changes. Either select
click when prompted. If you only want to save an image of the plot, you can paste a bitmap of the graph
Save
into another program and save it there.
If you do not want USB-5100 Series to prompt you to save the plot as a project file when you close it, complete
the following steps:
1. Select
File»Preferences»Warnings»General
2. Clear the Prompt me if there is any remaining unsaved data when closing plot or application
checkbox.

Printing Plot Elements

Printing a Graph

To set up the page for printing the graph, complete the following steps:
1. Select
File»Page Setup
2. Change the paper type, orientation, and margins as necessary and click
3. Select
File»Print Preview
4. Zoom as necessary.
5. Click the Print icon
without printing.
To print the graph, complete the following steps:
1. Select File»Print
2. Select the appropriate printer and click

Printing Points and Details

You can print all the data in the Points or Details panes. Select
or higher) or File»Print Details
If you highlight a selection of points with your mouse before selecting
print only the selected points.
.
on the tab or toolbar, or select
File»Close All
.
.
to print directly from
or click the Print icon
OK .
.
Reading Out, Plotting, and Analyzing Data
File»Close
.
File»Save Project before closing the plot or close the file and
.
Print Preview , or click Close
on the toolbar.
File»Print Points
Print Points
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.
OK .
to exit the preview dialog box
(available only with Java 1.5
, you are given the option to