Exporting Images of Charts and Graphs

Often you will want an image of your graphed data for a report or presentation. LabVIEW makes this very easyjust right-click on your graph or chart and select Export Simplified Image from the shortcut menu (this option will appear beneath the Data Operations>> submenu when the VI is in edit mode). From the Export Simplified Image dialog (shown in Figure 8.98), you can choose to save the image to disk in one of several file formats, or save the image to the clipboard for pasting into another document.

Figure 8.98. Export Simplified Image dialog

The "simplified" image that LabVIEW exports contains only the plot area, digital display, plot legend, and index display and does not include scrollbars, the scale legend, the graph palette, or the cursor palette. You can choose whether to include the grid, by setting the value of the Hide Grid checkbox in the Export Simplified Image dialog.

The following file formats are supported:

• Windows .emf, .bmp, and .tif

• Mac OS X .pict, .bmp, and .tif

• Linux .bmp and .tif

The Export Simplified Image option is not available for intensity graphs or intensity charts.