Printing or Saving a Chart Recorder

[sydkyd]

Is there a way to print charts to more than one page so that the time will display properly?  Or to save it to a file and adjust zoom to print at a later point in time?

[CJ_Butler__DASYLab_Pro]

Simply, no. There is no way to create a printout or zoomable jpg. 

You do have more control of how it looks in the Layout view. If you print the layout using an Action in DASYLab 2016, you have more control over the number of pixels used to print. 

[sydkyd]

I have made some progress on my venture.  It seems the strip chart recorder will print using an action and pulse on a set schedule, but I would like to print to pdf which it does and have it auto populate and save the file with a new name each time (every 5-10 minutes or so) as of right now I can only get it to either overwrite the same file or provide a pop up each time that needs to be named and saved, but there will not be someone at the computer at all times to handle this.

Also it seems that you can read previously recorded files with a module, but when I try to chart the data and check the box to use original date and time in the read data module the chart still uses the current date and time on the computer.  Is there a way to fix this?  This way I could regenerate the data at a later point in time and reprint the strip chart as needed.

[CJ_Butler__DASYLab_Pro]

If you have an Action module, you have DASYLab Full .

You can create a layout and then save it as an image with a name. Use a global string that includes a variable, and you can create a series of files. 

For example, when you execute an action, you can increment a variable (at the bottom of the dialog). Use that variable as an index. The cleanest way is to assemble the file name and index using the Global String computation dialog - that ensures that the index is in the correct place in the file name. Let me know if you want an example.

Printing to PDF takes the file name out of DASYLab's environment, and the Action has no control over the file name. 

[sydkyd]

Cj

Thank you for your time.  Yes I have DASYLab full, but I have not used the global strings yet and have been trying to figure out how to integrate them into some of my setups so I may need an example.  Just to be clear I am only trying to get an image of the chart to print for a report not the entire layout.