printing front panel of VI - no borders appear around the indicator box values

[Kenny_Leong]

Dear readers,
I am using Labview 6.1 on a pentium PC with adequate memory etc. I've been trying to print out the front panel of my VI using a postscript printer and the post script printing options available in the Labview. I notice that the printed front panel doesn't show the rectangular borders that is supposed to surround the values contained in indicators and controls.

Apart from this problem, everything looks good, such as it prints out in the way that I want...with nice white background to not waste ink.

Could someone please advise me on what options to set up in order to print the borders around the indicator box values? Thanks very much for any help.

I noticed that for
an older Labview for the apple Mac, namely Labview 4 for the Mac, you can just print the window of the front panel and everything comes out wonderful....you get the borders around the indicator and control box values.

Thanks again.

Kenny Leong

[mikeporter]

Typically, when you print you will get on the paper exactly what you see on the screen. A couple thought though, what color is the edges of the indicators? Black should show up as black, but if you are using a very light color it might get interpolated to white in the printer.

Could also be something funky with the printer driver (I have a Brother laser printer that always wants to print LV output upside down and backwards--I have to hold my printouts up to a mirror to read them...).

Could you post the front panel you're printing so some of us can try it? That would help determine whether it's a problem with your computer and printer, or there's something funny in the image itself.

Mike...

[Kenny_Leong]

Hi Mike!

Thanks for replying to my post. Greatly appreciated. Is it possible to set the colours for the indicator edges? I'll attach a screen capture of my front panel, and also a digi-pic of the print out. The printout is ok except there's no borders around the indicator values. I printed it out on a hp laserjet 6MP printer as well as on a hp 4050 printer and the printed panels have no borders around the values. I'll attach my front panel vi too. Thanks a lot Mike.

Kenny Leong

[Kenny_Leong]

Hi Mike!

I forgot to mention that the colour of the actual printout has a pure white background, even though the photograph of the printout looks like it has grey parts. The grey areas are only due to the photo being taken without enough lighting. Thanks!

[Kenny_Leong]

Hi Mike,

I was looking in the labview help directories for indicator box color etc, and I came across the 'classic' 2D controls. I find that the 2D indicators print out on paper with the borders around them, so this is great. I think I'll use the 2D classic indicators for now. If there's a way to set up borders for the 3D indicators/controls for printing then I'd be really interested to find out how it's done too. Thanks again.

Kenny Leong