edited picture of front panel

[mikhaylova_anna]

Hello to everybody,

I need to have an edited picture of a part of my front panel to publish it in a journal paper. But I've manage to create only .rtf and .pdf file and, of course, PrintScreen, but it is not what I need. What can i do more?

Thank you in advance.

 Anna

[Yamaeda]

I used several edited pictures in a school report, and my approach was PrintScreen and paste/create in a image manipulation program (photoshop, gimp, mspaint) and edit it there.

Would that work?

/Y

[mikhaylova_anna]

I am not sure 😞

For example, the publisher asks only an .ai file, as a picture from MatLAB

Message Edited by mikhaylova_anna on 01-08-2009 04:35 AM

[Hillman]

Hi there,

Thanks for the post and I hope your well today.

Firstly, I had a chat with our technical marketing guys and they use Print screen too. 🙂

However, I have found out a bit more about the .ai file type.

FYI: AI file is: Adobe Illustrator vector graphic file

How to convert JPEG file to AI file?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070427085305AAqvxQp

I guess some googling is required,

Hope this helps,

[mikhaylova_anna]

I'll try PrintScreen, of course, but I have already been bitten hardly by publisher for converting my other pictures. They say, they need original files.

It seems, that there is no special feature to do this 😞

Thank you. I'll try what we have.

[jcarmody]

You can download Adobe Illustrator and try it free for 30 days; it's US$600 to buy.  

[Yamaeda]

Putting a photo/picture in a .AI-file only embeds it, there's nothing gained really.

Is there some specific reason for the .ai-request as them only having Illustrator or a picture database?

/Y

[jcarmody]

Right, but once it's embedded you can use Illustrator to automatically trace it and get a vector representation of the raster image.  I also wonder about the AI requirement; I'd have guessed that a screen-shot is the best you can do from LabVIEW or any other (lesser :)) language.

j

Message Edited by jcarmody on 01-08-2009 06:45 AM

[mikhaylova_anna]

No, no, I only named .ai-file to illustrate publisher's requirements, ( because in MatLAB, as an example, it is possible to create a lot of formats of files for pictures (jpeg, png, fig, etc), but they need only .ai).

For other programms it is possible to use other formats, of course, but with the same properties. Possible .rtf or .pdf from LabVIEW are not as they want.

[Yamaeda]

Is the idea that LabVIEW should produce a .AI file?

Then i guess you can use some activex-function which produce one in your VI.

(technically it's Illustrator doing it, but behind the scenes)

/Y