HP 8753E manual Outputting Plot Files from a PC to a Plotter, Using Freelance

Using Freelance

‘Ib view plot files in Freelance, perform the following steps:

1.From the FILE pull-down menu, select IMPORT.

2.Set the file type in the dialog box to HGL.

Note The network analyzer does not use the sulllx *.HGL, so you may want to change the tllename filter to *. * or some other pattern that will allow you to locate the llles you wish to import.

3.Click OK to import the file.

nYou will notice that when the trace is displayed, the text annotation will be illegible. You can easily ti this with the following steps:

a.From the TEXT pull-down menu select FONT.

b.Select the type face and size. (Fourteen point text is a good place to start.) c. Click OK to resize the font.

w If you wish to modify the color of the displayed text, perform the following steps:

a.From the ARRANGE pull-down menu select UNGROUP.

b.Highlight a piece of text.

c.From the STYLE pull-down menu select ATTRIBUTES.

d.Select the desired text color and click OK.

e.Repeat steps b through d for each piece of text.

Outputting Plot Files from a PC to a Plotter

1.Connect the plotter to an output port of the computer (for example, COMl).

2.If using the COMl port, output the llle to the plotter by using the following command: C:>TYPEPLOTOO.FP> COMI

4.22Printing, Plotting, and Saving Measurement Results