Printing a subVI to a file

[rayt]

Hi there,

I need to print a plot and the legends to a file. Saving the plot as the available Simplified Image has problem showing the legends (only shows the first one). Is there any solution for this problem?

Now I have defined a multi-column listbox for the legends. To print them all, I have defined a subVI with the desired format to be printed (the method 3 explained in http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/981C98819DBB89FE862569610046CFB8). However,  Labview crashes when I print the subVI to rtf or html.

1. How I can fix this problem?

2.  "Print at Completion" is perfect for my purpose, but I need this to work as print to file. Is this possible?

3.  What if I want to print to other formats, such as .eps?

4. As far as I know, to print a control (like a graph...), the easy option is Saving the Simplified Image. Is printing high quality pictures DIRECTLY possible, maybe in newer verisons of LABVIEW?

Thank you very much for the helps.

-- Reza

[GerdW]

Hi Reza,

you can save the whole frontpanel to a file. It's a method of the vi...

[rayt]

Thanks GerdW. However, how we can do this for .eps format output?

[GerdW]

Hi rayt,

well, the front panel is a pixel based graphic. So you get pixel based pictures...

Using the available properties/methods that's all you get.

[rayt]

Thank you GerdW. I guess this is the case for a single control too. Right?

In the Print VI method, there are options for sending the VI image to a postscript printer. Is it possible to redirect this to a ps file? One way should be having a "Write To File Printer" in the OS printer list and use it (I have not test this yet). But this is not very convenient as this is something to be done out of Labview.

Thanks again,

-- Reza