iTool User's Guide - Exelis VIS

46 Chapter 2: Importing and Exporting Data
Exporting and Saving Data
IDL iTools provide different ways to save data from visualizations: the Save As
function and the Export functions.
• Save As — Saves the contents of the iTools window - including information in
the annotation layer, such as text annotations, titles, colorbars, etc.
• Export Image — Saves only the image. Does not include anything contained
in the annotation layer.
• Export to IDL — Exports data variables to the current IDL session.
Saving Data Using Save As
You can export the contents of an entire iTool window into a single image or data file
using Save As. By default, the iTools Save As... menu option allows you to save data
in the following formats:
• iTools State (ISV)
• Windows Bitmap (BMP)
• Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
• EMF (Windows only)
• Joint Photographic Experts
Group (JPG)
• JPEG2000 (J2K)
• Graphics Interchange Format
(GIF)
• Macintosh PICT
• Portable Network Graphics
(PNG)
• Tag Image File Format (TIFF)
For example, to Save an iTools visualization as a .png file:
Exporting and Saving Data
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