How can one obtain printouts of the various plots of the beam cross-section that DIFFRACT displays on the monitor?
A quick printout of the entire Graphics Window may be obtained by first selecting that window, then choosing Print from the File menu displayed at the top of the screen. However, if you want to incorporate the graphics into a document you must save the plot files to the hard disk. Saving will create, in addition to the graphic data-files, a bitmap file containing the latest screen dump. You may load these .BMP files to any Windows-based utility package (such as Word® and Paint®) in order to manipulate and/or print them. As for the graphic .DAT files, using the File_Management/Graphics option of DIFFRACT, you may convert these files into TIFF format, and save them again. The TIFF files may subsequently be ported to a word processor and incorporated within your documents. The .DAT graphic files are simple 2-D arrays of ASCII numbers; these files may therefore be ported to many commercially available graphics programs (e.g., Matlab®, Mathematica®, Origin®, etc.), and rendered as 3-D plots
