PrintCapture description
Easily capture images from your oscilloscope for your hardware documentation.

PrintCapture is a reliable program that will allow you to capture the printer or plotter hardcopy output from your logic analyzer, oscilloscope or spectrum analyzer.

It processes raw HPGL (Hewlett Packard Graphics Language), PCL (Printer Control Language), or Epson graphics data from your test equipment and creates a graphics image file that can easily be inserted into a word processor to document your hardware design.

PrintCapture can be used for troubleshooting, product design reviews, product documentation, student lab assignments, and more.

PrintCapture can launch your current image editor, drag and drop the image into another Windows program, copy the image to the clipboard, resize the image (manually and automatically), rotate the image (manually and automatically), set the print resolution of the image (manually and automatically), automatically print the image, save and restore configurations for different test equipment, and more.

Here are some key features of "PrintCapture":

· Incorporate images from your oscilloscope, logic analyzer, or spectrum analyzer into your project documentation.
· Replace the serial printer, serial plotter, parallel printer, parallel plotter, GPIB printer, or GPIB plotter that is generally connected to your logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, or oscilloscope for hardcopy documentation.
· Keep multiple images open at once so you can easily see the difference between images.
· Open and display a file that currently exists in a BMP, Epson ESC/P, GIF, HPGL, HPGL/2, JPG, PCL, PCX, PNG, TGA, or TIF file format.
· Convert an image to a BMP, EPS, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, or TIF file format.
· Select a working directory where your images will be stored. This makes it easy to separate images by project.
· Auto-increment image file names for sequential captures. Just keep pressing the 'print' button on your test equipment.
· Drag-and-drop an image into another Windows-based program.
· Copy an image to the clipboard. From the clipboard the image can be pasted into other Windows-based programs.
· Edit the image, via an external program such as Microsoft Paint or Paint Shop Pro, so you can add your own information to the image.
· Maintain an image notes document via an external program such as WordPad, NotePad, or Microsoft Word.
· Print the image on your computer's printer.
· Save the raw data from your test equipment to help us improve the image processing engines.


Requirements:

· An available serial port or a National Instruments compatible GPIB interface.
· Windows NT 4.0, 2000, and XP require Administrator Rights for installation.
· Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater. Internet Explorer has to be installed but it doesn't have to be your default browser. The online help for PrintCapture uses parts of Internet Explorer.
· Your logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, or oscilloscope must have print or hardcopy capability and must have a serial printer or serial plotter output that supports hardware handshaking (RTS/CTS or DTR/DSR). If your computer has a GPIB interface that uses National Instruments' NI-488.2 device driver then PrintCapture 3.x can also be configured to use NI's device driver. If your test equipment doesn't have a serial printer or serial plotter output, but it does have a parallel printer, parallel plotter, GPIB printer, or GPIB plotter output, there are parallel-to-serial and GPIB-to-serial converters that can be used instead.


Limitations:

· 30-day trial version fully functional.