LBP2 User Guide
Document No: 50306-001
Rev G 3/12/2020
Page 69
4.8.2
Export
To capture the 2D or 3D displayed image into an image file format, click on the
Export… folder. This will open the Export dialog box shown below.
Select which type of image format to create, more than one type can be created
at a time. Enter at what buffer location to start and how many frames to export.
Enter a file name or click Browse. Then click OK.
Important:
Image exports of either 2D or 3D images need to be performed with the display
fully visible. Closing the display or hiding it behind another displayed item will
cause all overlays, such as results, apertures, profile slices, etc., to disappear
from the exported file image.
Important:
Image files such as jpeg, tiff, gif, bmp, and png do not accurately preserve the
data content of the source information. These files will contain an image
exactly like the one currently being displayed.
The ASCII file type is an actual copy of the image’s processed data, minus any
graphical overlays. Thus, this type of image will faithfully reproduce the processed
pixel values. If the data is calibrated the ASCII will be in the calibrated
power/energy value at each pixel. If uncalibrated, the data will be in counts.
Ultracal’d data and Auto-X data will be processed and contain negative noise
values as well as positive signal content. ASCII files can be quite large especially
if the frame is large and the data is power/energy calibrated.
Unlike the previous image formats, the ASCII data will be the entire frame unless
a manual or auto aperture is present. In this manner the amount of data can be
reduced to just the region that is involved in results calculations. The X and Y
limits of a drawn manual aperture will bind the image region exported into the
ASCII file. If the aperture is not a rectangular shape drawn on axis, the pixels
that lie outside of the aperture will be exported as empty values.
