I am running an HP 3048 under HTBasic and I have a nice looking phase noise graph on the screen. I want to export the graph to the world outside of RMB. Using the "Hard Copy" or "Plot" function keys does nothing, probably because I don't have an HP-IB printer or plotter connected. (I actually have the extremely rare HP-IB printer on hand, but I don't want a paper copy, I want a .bmp or something like that).
I see that HTBasic has a Win-Print driver, so I loaded that FWIW. I don't see how to make the RMB software connect to it. The HTBasic manual discusses how to print text using this driver, but I want to print (or plot) graphics. The HTBasic site also shows a Microsoft supplied HPGL filter that sounds like it might emulate a pen plotter. The HTBasic manual says that you can write "PLOTTER IS <filename>". Maybe that will work. I see in the existing RMB code the program calls line 25148 PLOTTER IS CRT and elsewhere PLOTTER IS HPGL. The 3048 help file says holding down the shift key while pushing the Plot button redirects to the HPGL plotter. Can I simply replace "HPGL" with "<filename> or something? Then there are the Result (RESU) files. Does anyone know how to translate them into anything readable? As a last resort, I am using the keyboard's "Print Screen" key to copy the screen to the Windows 7 clipboard. It is then available to any Windows program. That's clumsy but better than nothing. As a hardware engineer, even this simple software stuff is above my pay grade. Any help would be appreciated. When I first got the 3048, I tried PN3048. I realize it can effortlessly export graphs. According to the author, it does not support various features that I need (and apparently never will). So I am stuck in the RMB world. Rick N6RK _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.