Exporting Images and Copying Selections to the Clipboard

You can save images of echograms and cruise tracks either by exporting them as image files (including the color legend), or copying them onto the clipboard as a bitmap.

Refer to the options on the Export to Image dialog box (also ExportEchogramToImageCustom via COM) for customizing single beam echogram image exports. The image diemsions for JPEG exports cannot exceed 32,000 pixels.

Exporting to an image file

Echograms

Single beam

  1. Click on an open echogram.
  2. Select the Echogram menu, Export, To Image, Whole echogram/Visible echogram.
  3. - OR -
  4. Select a region or make a selection using a Selection tool.
  1. On the Shortcut (right-click) menu, point to Export Region/Export Selection, then click To Image...
  2. Customize your export using the Export to Image dialog box and click Export...
  3. Choose the file export format (PNG, JPEG, TIFF or bitmap) from the Save as type drop-down menu in the explorer window.

Multibeam

  1. Make a selection using a Selection tool.
  1. On the Shortcut (right-click) menu, point to Export Selection, then click To Image File...
  2. Choose the file export format (PNG, JPEG, TIFF or bitmap) from the Save as type drop-down menu in the explorer window.

Cruise tracks

To export a cruise track/alongtrack display to an image file:

  1. Click on an open cruise track.
  2. On the Shortcut (right-click) menu, point to Export Window, then click To Image File...
  3. - OR -
  4. Make a selection using a Selection tool.
  1. On the Shortcut (right-click) menu, point to Export Selection, then click To Image File...
  2. Choose the file export format (PNG, JPEG, TIFF or bitmap) from the Save as type drop-down menu in the explorer window.

Georeferencing information exported with the cruise tracks

When you export a selection from a cruise track, Echoview may also export georeferencing information.

If you export a cruise track to a ...

Echoview writes georeferencing information...

.tiff file

to an ESRI world file with the same name as the .tiff file but with a .tiffw extension

.tif file

to an ESRI world file with the same name as the .tif file but with a .tfw extension

GeoTIFF file (.tif or .tiff)

by embedding it in headers in the TIFF file

.jpg file

to an ESRI world file with the same name as the .jpg file but with a .jgw extension

.jpeg file

to an ESRI world file of the same name as the .jpeg file but with a .jpegw extension

.bmp (24-bit)

Not applicable - Echoview does not write georeferencing information for this format

Copying a selection to the clipboard

  1. Make a selection using a selection tool:

    Single beam echograms

    Rectangular, Horizontal band or Vertical band

    Multibeam echograms

    Rectangular

    Cruise tracks

    Rectangular, Vertical band or Polygon

  1. On the Shortcut (right-click) menu, click Copy

See also

About selections
Understanding echograms
About printing