About printing in Echoview

Echoview provides the option to print echograms, cruise tracks, graphs and scenes, filesets, dataflow windows. Printing is available under licensed modules: Essentials, Survey Suite or Habitat Classification.

Echoview also offers the option to export a selection of an echogram or cruise track to an image file or copy a selection to the clipboard for pasting into another application. See Export and Copy to image files.

This page covers:

Printing echograms

It is possible to print partial or full echograms with a pre-defined zoom level.

To print the echogram in view:

Bring the echogram window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
On the Print Echogram dialog box, click Print Setup and select the orientation and printer.
Click OK to close the Print Setup dialog and return to the Print Echogram dialog.
Choose the Zoom level and pages to print.
Click OK.

The EV filename, date and time of printing, and version of Echoview are automatically printed on echograms.

Notes:

After entering a value for Pings/Page, pressing the Tab key will evaluate the actual Pings/Page value to use.
Printing large echograms uses a lot of memory and may take some time.
We highly recommend that a color printer is used for printing echograms. If you do wish to use a monochrome printer, we recommend you first change the color scheme used for the echogram to the "gray" color scheme. The color scheme setting can be changed on the Echogram Display page of the Variable Properties dialog.
We recommend that you use a Landscape orientation for printing echograms. Echograms printed with a Portrait orientation will appear elongated in the vertical dimension.
Export from echogram to a image file.

Printing cruise tracks

To print a cruise track:

Bring the cruise track window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

The area of cruise track that will be printed is the same as the visible area in the cruise track window at the time of printing. Printed cruise tracks will display the same zoom magnification that can be seen on screen. Grid lines, the date and time of printing, the EV filename, the variable name (position variable for GPS fixes cruise tracks and acoustic variable for alongtrack display cruise tracks) and version of Echoview will also be printed for a cruise track.

Printing the Regions window

To print a Regions window:

Display the Regions window.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

Printing graphs

To print a graph:

Bring the graph window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

The graph will be printed as displayed on the screen. The date and time of printing will also be printed for a graph. Ping graphs will also print the ping number(s) on the graph.

Printing scenes, 4D windows and 3D single targets graphs

To print a scene/4D window/3D single targets graph:

Bring the scene or 3D single targets graph or 4D window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

The scene will be printed as displayed on the screen. The date and time of printing will also be printed for a scene.

Printing the Filesets window

To print a Filesets window:

Bring the filesets window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

The data files and raw variables listed in the filesets window will be printed. The date and time of printing, version of Echoview and EV file name will also be printed.

Printing the Dataflow window

To print a Dataflow window:

Bring the Dataflow window into focus.
On the File menu, click Print.
Select a printer from the drop-down list.
Click OK.

Echoview will zoom the contents of the window to fit the selected page size.

Print Setup

Print Setup is accessed via the Print Setup command on the File menu for echogram, cruise track, graph, scene and fileset window printing. Print Setup allows you to choose settings for paper size, paper source, orientation and margins.