Printing and Saving the Applet Window

Method 1: Screen Capture

This method uses screen capture to obtain a copy of what you see in the applet window. Here is how it works for Windows XP and Windows 2000:
  1. Select the window containing the graph.
  2. Press the ALT key followed by the PrintScreen key.
  3. Open Paint (or another picture editor) and paste in the image. Paint is found under Start: Programs: Accessories:
  4. If you are happy with the image you obtain, save in the the format you want (or print it). Otherwise, use the picture editing tools to select only the parts you want before saving or printing.

Method 2: From the Window Menu

Printing

Just click on File:Print, and in the resulting window make sure Print to: Printer is checked and that you have the correct printer command.

Saving

You can also save the contents of the applet window to a file. This is useful if you want to incorporate the contents of the applet window directly into a document. The present version of the software cannot save to a useful file when running on a Windows platform. However, in Unix, it can save to a postscript file. Postscript is useful for direct inclusion into TeX or LaTeX documents. It can also be converted to other formats, such as gif or jpg, which can be incorporated into Word documents. The program xv, for example, can do such conversions.

To save the contents of the applet window to a file in Unix, click on File:Print, and in the resulting window make sure Print to: File is checked and that you specify the name of the target file (including the path if in a different directory from the one in which you started the browser).


Joe Petruccelli < jdp@wpi.edu>
Last modified: Fri Feb 20 08:22:57 EST 2004