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Some of the values in the Properties Panel are saved when saving the spectrum to a file.
The others are recalculated when the spectrum is reloaded.
3.6 File Operations
You can save the selected spectrum or the whole Spectrum List using the commands in
the File menu. You can also open spectrum files to load them back into Waves for further
evaluation (sounds obvious, but surprisingly, many spectroscopy applications don’t even
support this).
The file format for spectra is a simple ASCII table with columns delimited by the TAB
character and some header lines containing the metadata. This allows the spectrum files
saved by Waves to be read by almost any numerical analysis software like Origin, Excel or
Matlab. The default file extension for these files is ‘‘
.spz ’’. If you click on an .spz file in
Window Explorer, it is opened with the Waves application.
In Waves, you can also open spectrum data files written by other applications, if they are
saved as ASCII tables or
.csv files. Waves tries its best to automatically determine the file
structure and is able to open many different file formats.
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You can print spectra by choosing ‘‘Print’’ from the file menu. If you choose the page
orientation as ‘‘Landscape’’, the spectrum diagram is printed across the whole page. If
you choose ‘‘Portrait’’, the diagram is printed on the upper half of the page and the lower
half shows selected metadata and values.
The printing options are designed for the most common tasks. If you have further specific
requirements for printing, you may also decide to export the diagram and then use a
graphical design software or word processor for printing.
You can export the diagram either as a bitmap image or as a PDF vector graphic. Both
options are available by choosing ‘‘Export’’ from the File menu.
After choosing a file name, you can set the height and width of the image and the
resolution, if applicable. Please note that the text sizes and line widths are constant.
Therefore, if you choose a larger export size, the labels and line widths appear to be
smaller.
1 In case you have a spectrum file written as ASCII data and you are unable to open it in Waves, please
contact our Technical Support Team and we’ll see if we can include an import filter for this file format.