Saving your plot

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3.3.1.17 Saving your plot

You can save a copy of a plot to file in the Plots > Export tab. Click the Browse button for a GUI-based selection of the directory and file name to which the plot will be saved. The file format can also be determined in this GUI by the suffix given to the filename: .png (PNG), .jpg (JPG), .ps (PS), or .pdf (PDF). Alternatively, the file format can be selected from the Format drop-down menu located just below the Browse button. In this case, plotms will add a suffix to the file name depending on the format chosen.

ALERT: The plot files produced by the PS and PDF options can be large and time-consuming to export. The JPG is the smallest.
On MacOS there are known problems when exporting to anything but a file in png format. Until this is fixed, please export to png and use third party software, such as the MacOS application Preview or the ImageMagick Tool convert to convert the png to pdf, jpg, eps, etc.

The exported plot resolution can be manipulated using the High Resolution, DPI, and Size options.

Click on Export to create the file. Note that, if there is more than one plot displayed in the plotms window, it will only export the currently selected plot.

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