Printing

Save Scan Summary as PS File

will save a small image or spectrum plot along with all important stage positions and other scan parameters to as Postscript file (see Fig. 5.6). Can be used as a logbook stamp or something of that sort.

Figure 5.6: Scan summary printed from SM_GUI

Save Scan Summary as PS File with Big Image

will do the same as above, except that a big image fills the rest of the page.

Print Scan Summary

will send the scan summary as described above directly to a printer. A printer dialog will pop up. The one for Windows operating systems is shown in Fig. 5.7 and shouldn't require any further explanations. The dialog for Unix operating systems is shown in Fig. 5.8. You could print to a file (default: encapsulated Postscript), but probably you want to send the output to the printer directly. For that (if your printers are set up correctly on the operating system level), you can leave the Output Format on "Generic (File Only)" and pipe the output directly to the lpr command by entering !lpr into the File Name field. If you don't want to use your default printer, use !lpr -Pqueuename, where queuename, of course, is the name of your Unix printer queue. For more information on printer setup in IDL on Unix systems, check the IDL help system.

Figure 5.7: Printer setup dialog on Windows Computers

Figure 5.8: Printer setup dialog on Unix computers. You can just mark "Generic (File Only)" and then type !lpr -Pqueuename into the "File Name" field.

Print Scan Summary with Big Image

is as above with a big image included.