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APPLICATION PROGRAM EXAMPLES A - 9
A.4 Making a Hardcopy of the Screen
In the following example a hardcopy of the screen picture is made as follows:
1) Enter the hardcopy of the screen in HPGL data format.
2) Send the entered data buffer to a HPGL plotter connected via the IEEE bus.
Application summary:
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Connect the HPGL plotter to the computer via the GPIB interface.
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Turn off the power of the HPGL plotter to prevent the plotter from starting to
plot during the data transport from the CombiScope instrument to the
computer.
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Create the picture (waveforms + text) on the screen that you want to hardcopy
to the plotter. The CombiScope instrument must be in its digital mode (DSO).
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Select the hardcopy HPGL format by sending: HCOPy:DEVice HPGL
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Enter the hardcopy HPGL data by sending: HCOPy:DATA?
and by reading the response data, i.e.: #0<hardcopy data>.
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Stop program execution to let you turn on the power of the HPGL plotter.
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Finally send the HPGL <hardcopy data> to the HPGL plotter. As a result the
picture of the screen is plotted on the plotter paper.
Application program:
Note: The program is supplied on floppy under file name EXAPPA4.BAS.
CombiScope
instrument
computer
plotter
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