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I have been going through messages for a while but just can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. I need to print a waveform chart that has two plots that update at about 10Hz. Simple enough, right? Problem is that the report vi's have no way I can see to easily enlarge the image. I tried putting a larger chart in a sub vi that prints after executing but the chart only get part of the data when I run it. Then I tried the invoke get image method but can't find an indicator for the image data. Is there a way to print an enlarged waveform chart image? It would be even better if I can just print a front panel of a subvi with the same data on the waveform chart that appears on my top-level VI.
PaulG.

LabVIEW versions 5.0 - 2023

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What I have done in these situations is to have a graphs that is sized to printout the size that I want. I then update the graph from the program data, grab an image of the graph using the Get Image method, and save the image as a jpeg file. I can then either printhout this file or include it in a standard report.

OR you can use Draw Flattened Pixmap.vi to turn it into a form that will go into a picture indicator

OR you can create a VI with the graph on its front panel that is set to print itself when it finishes executing - or which you print programatically

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even i have a similar problem

 

please check this link below.

 

https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Probelm-with-Printing-FP-image/m-p/2246684#M713349

 

i tried changing the size of the image i created, but in the standard report its not working well. in an html report, the image fits well and is centred.

why is it so?

 

i use PDFCreator as printer.

 

LV 2012

 

thanks

 

Renn

 

 

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