Printing and Exporting

To print the current display, select File->Print. This brings up the standard KDE print dialog. Notice the additional Background Color tab: it allows you to set the background color to white for printing (this saves printer ink). If the tabs are hidden, just click on the Expand button to display them.

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If a position view is opened, each view is printed on a separate page. The file name, the starting time and time frame of the trace view are printed below the figure. The filie name of the position view is printed below the position figure.

Exporting is achieved in a similar way as printing. Select File->Print. In the print dialog, click on the printer drop down list, and choose Print to File (PostScript) to export the display as a PostScript figure, or Print to File (PDF) to export it as a Portable Document File.

The Postscript format is ideal to import a figure into a drawing program for additional editing: it is a widely used standard, and all the information is stored in vectorial form. The PDF format is ideal for sharing a final figure with other investigators: it is platform independent (it will look identical whether in Linux, MacOS or Windows) and much more compact than PostScript (thus the output file is smaller and can easily be sent as an attachment via e-mail).