Plot Hardcopy

For hardcopy, the current screen plot can be echoed to a PostScript file plot.ps with the HARD command. The size of the plot objects on the screen and on hardcopy can be changed with the SIZE command from most menus. The number requested is the width of the plot in inches.

NOTE

If the plot.ps file is to be previewed with some X-Windows PostScript viewer, or imported into word-processing systems, XFOIL must be exited with QUIT in order for the plot.ps file to be properly terminated.
For just printing, this may or may not be necessary.

NOTE

For the geometry plot in GDES, and the Qspec(s) plots in QDES and MDES (described below), the hardcopy plot size will also be affected if the graphics window is resized with the cursor at the window manager level. This is because the plot is always scaled so that it fills up as much of the window as possible. If the window size is left at its start-up size, the hardcopy plot widths will come out with the specified size in inches. If any window dimension is increased from its default value, then a subsequent hardcopy plot will probably not fit on a standard 8.5” x 11.0” sheet.