CAVE Fundamentals
Import/Export
Printing the Contents of the Main Display Panel
Making hard copies is a fairly straight-forward process in AWIPS. The Print GUI (File->Print or printer icon on D2D toolbar) gives you many of the basic options that you will see in any typical print dialog box: Portrait/Landscape, Scale, Copies, etc. 
When you print hard copies, most often the “Invert Black/White” check box should be selected. This option prevents using excessive amounts of black ink. Situations where you will want to toggle this feature off include printing an image product that uses a primarily grayscale Color Table (such as Satellite Data) or image products with Color Tables that use white and black as particular data values that would somehow make interpreting the hard copy difficult. The other unique thing about the AWIPS print tool is that it gives you the capability to change the CAVE magnitude and density settings from the AWIPS printer dialog. If you select the File checkbox, then you can export the editor contents as a PDF.
Another way to print within AWIPS is using the Export option (CAVE->Export->Print Screen). This option contains basic print settings and will not let you toggle between black and white backgrounds, nor will it let you control the density and magnitude in CAVE.
This task demonstrates how to make a hard copy of the main display panel contents.
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Exporting Screen Captures from AWIPS as an Image
Making images or animated GIFs is very easy in AWIPS using the capture utility under CAVE->Export->Image. To make readable images you should pay attention to image size and label readability. Resize your CAVE display so the editor with the data is the the desired pixel size. Second, increase the magnification of the product legend (right click on product legend or adjust Mag in the toolbar), so the fonts are clearly readable for the text legends. If you have multiple frames loaded you specify to create a separate image for each, and you can also create an animated gif. AWIPS has some video capture capability with the FFmpeg application (see the 17.2.1 tab on the AWIPS Builds page and the 17.2.1 Informational Overview for more details).
This task demonstrates how to make an image file or a series of image files of the main display panel contents.
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