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Mads

Make it possible to change the name of documents sent to the printer

Status: New

If you print a VI or control image from you application built in LabVIEW it will be identified as a "Labview document".

 

I would like to be able to name it myself - to fit the type of document I'm actually printing. Ideally it would be an input for the print invoke nodes, but a general override could also do the trick - or at least name the document after the application, not the development environment...:

 

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DavidBoyd
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This one has annoyed me for a long time too - seems like it could simply be modified to substitute the application name somehow, or better yet the name of the window title from which the image is rendered, since that's already changeable at runtime.

 

Can't imagine that such a change to the existing behavior would break anyone's workflow or expectations. "Labview Document" (notice that they didn't even get the preferred capitalization) looks like it was a complete afterthought.

 

Any idea if this is a Windows-specific thing, or do Mac and Linux show similar behavior?

David Boyd
Sr. Test Engineer
Abbott Labs
(lapsed) Certified LabVIEW Developer