edited picture of front panel

[mikhaylova_anna]

Not exactly, that LabVIEW should produce .ai-file, but, yes, format-file shoud have the same properties.

I've sent the publisher all possible variants (plus PrintScreen, too) and have been waiting their reply.

Message Edited by mikhaylova_anna on 01-08-2009 08:55 AM

[Kevin_S]

One utility that can be used to capture, edit, and save image files on Windows is called "FastStone Capture".  Some of the later versions allow you to evaluate the software for a specified time, but the earlier versions (I have version 5.3) don't have an expiration period.

Best of luck,

Kevin S.

Applications Engineer

National Instruments

[chilly_charly]

The best tool to make pictures from FP or BD in LabVIEW is, beyond any doubt, the Code Capture Tool (CCT), a free utility written with LabVIEW, dedicated to that usage.

You could download it from here.

Most of the diagram and front panel images that are published in these forums are produced with the CCT. The generated file are png pictures.

[TCPlomp]

Too bad non of the NI techs use the Code Capture Tool, it is listed on the LabVIEW tools network, and the LAVA code repository.

However producing ai files is quite hard, but with the Code Capture Tool you have a LabVIEW api to programatically build PNG files, maybe the Adobe ActiveX interface can read thos?

Ton

[RavensFan]

I think the poster is going to have a hard time coming up with any kind of file format that satisfies the graphics guy.

The problem is those graphics people all want to work with vector files.  But the problem is in the real world of computers, just about everything a computer outputs will be a raster image, even if a program works with graphics in a vector format in the background.  For example, LabVIEW probably works with building images of a front panel in a vector format in the background so it can handle things such as resizing front panel buttons and controls cleanly, once it has the image calculated, it is just going to generate a bitmap that gets sent to the graphics card for display, or even to the printer.

 I had this problem when working with a finite element analysis that someone wanted an image of to have printed on a t-shirt or something.  A finite element program doesn't generate its images as a vector format, it calculates the image pixel by pixel as a bitmap and outputs it that way.  How can you truly define a varying color pattern of finite element results as mathematical vector pattern that some other program could scale up or down.  You can't.  The math can only be done in the finite element package and have the image output generated pixel by pixel in as large of a resolution as the software will allow.