Snapshot of complicated plot

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Fri, 06/17/2016 - 12:59 am

I have written a series of procedures, one of these generates a plot with lots of traces (1000s). This graph window gets placed in a Layout along with lots of other graphs and then this report is saved as PDF. The plot is dispensable, but the layout is not. Re-opening the experiment takes a long time (to remake the graph) and I'm wondering: is there an easy way to store a 'picture' of the plot and put that into the layout and kill the graph window?
I suggest trying the following: save your graph as a .png file. Select your Layout as the target window. Then use the Misc -> Pictures.. menu to bring it into Igor as a picture object and use "Place Picture in Layout" in the Pictures dialog window.

June 17, 2016 at 09:06 am - Permalink

You could use SavePICT, saving to the clipboard, LoadPICT to load from the clipboard to the picture gallery, then AppendLayoutObject to put the picture into the layout. I think that gets you a programmatic way to do what s.r.chinn described.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

June 17, 2016 at 10:23 am - Permalink

Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, I wanted a way to do this programmatically. Thank you both.

June 17, 2016 at 01:32 pm - Permalink