Printing out large Pro-Max 2-D Lines on the Plotter

 

1. Enter Pro-Max and edit the flow (flow 1) that you wish to print.
2. Toggle off Trace Display
3. Add Disk Data Output.
4. Click onto the file name and click the middle mouse button.
5. Create a file to output the 2-D line. Ex, file 1. Click on the current file name to display all of the output files. Add a new file if a suitable output file doesn’t exist.
6. Under disk data input, make sure that you are inputing all of the data, not just selected traces.
7. Execute the flow.
8. Create a new flow in Pro-max (flow 2), and input file 1 as the Disk Data input
9. Create a CGM file in Pro-max. Add the Create cgm+ plotfile to flow_2.
10. Middle click on the CGM command and fill in the plotfile’s attributes.

• plot name: cgmplot.cgm
• plot units: inches
• spatial domain of input data: usu CDP
• First and last CDP
• CDP increment
• Trace Spacing: ~40 spaces per inch
• Time scale: ~6 inches/sec

1. Execute the flow.
2. Exit Pro-max
3. View the CGM file before you print it with SDI-View
4. To start SDI-view type in this command line at at terminal window. /pecten/s0/sdi/sdi_view/ sdi_view cgmplot.cgm /boris/s0/promax_home/user_id/bullwinkle/line_16437/flow_2/cgmplot.cgm
5. If you can view it in SDI-View, the file is ready to print.
6. Make sure someone is in Miley’s
7. Change to your home directory
8. type source zgs.login
9. type plotfile. This will begin a program that will print your file.
10. Choose cgm as your printer file type
11. type in the pathname where the file is located, /boris/s0/promax_home/user_id/bullwinkle/ line_16437/flow_2/cgmplot.cgm
12. Enter the plotter name: 2500cp
13. 1 copy
14. Get your print out.