Okay, I installed the HP PostScript drivers, but, as far as I can
tell, there is no option to 'Save to File.' [Such an option may be
there somewhere, but I looked all over the place, and I couldn't find
it...]

Besides, the idea of saving to PostScript, and then running some
program like 'ps2png' or 'ps2tiff' is not very appealing to me, for at
least two reasons:

1) It's very batch-file-ish in nature, i.e. I've got to download some
monstrosity like Ghostscript, get it installed, get it configured [no
trivial task in and of itself, believe you me], then write some
batch-file-ish thingamabob to open the PostScript file and process it
- I'd much prefer to [at the very worst] make a call straight to a DLL
from within a Labview VI. But that's only the start of my woes; once
I've got a PostScript file, I've got to figure out some way to cut
just the picture of the Waveform Graph from the larger picture of the
VI window - I suppose I could use some sort of a Clipping Path or an
Encapsulated PostScript Bounding Box, but at this point we've clearly
crossed over into the realm of what I would call 'hideously ugly,
grotesquely inelegant, batch-file-ish hack.' Plus, my gut instinct is
that it would take a bare minimum of a week or more to get such a
thing up and running efficiently, when, if I could make a call
straight to the Labview printing infrastructure, I could do it in just
a few minutes.

2) It's very, very difficult to venture into the realm of PostScript
software [especially Ghostscript] and keep your project from becoming
contaminated by the GPL, or worse [the Aladdin license agreement ain't
exactly a stroll on the beach].
 

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