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Seismic Viewer: Print Properties

The Print Properties dialog box allows you to configure various parameters for hard copy plotting.

Print Properties Tabs

Properties

Specify the annotation that appears around the seismic - the legend, horizon/fault names and the horizon intersections.

Display legend: Turn this off this item to quickly turn off the entire legend on seismic plots.

Display horizon labels: Outputs horizon labels next to the horizon itself. Labels are output at the left-most trace that the horizon exists.

Display fault labels: Outputs fault labels next to the fault.

Transparent Labels vs Opaque Labels: Allows you to set the background of horizon and fault labels. When transparent you will be able to see the seismic behind the label. When opaque a white area will cover part of the seismic, but makes the label more readable.

Display horizon intersections: Outputs the horizon intersection "X" marks on the plot.

Legend

Specify which items should be displayed with the sidebar legend.

Display legend:When Display Legend is turned on all of the selected items will plot on the sidebar legend. 

Display seismic parameters: Puts a description of the seismic parameters such as traces per inch on the side bar label.

Display scale bar:  Adds a scale bar to the side bar label. Note: you will not see the scale bar when the "Use traces per inch" scaling option is used.

Display colorbar: Outputs the colorbar with annotation on the left side of the plot. Set the Height parameter to specify the total height of the colorbar.

Display horizon legend: Outputs a legend showing the horizons names and colors on the left side of the plot.

Display project information: Prints information such as the project name on the side label.

Include user and machine names: Prints the name of you and source machine on the side label. Often used in large companies to identify plots.

Display EBCDIC header: Plots out the EBCDIC header on the side label. The EBCDIC header is only plotted when a single dataset is displayed. The EBCDIC versus ASCII label allows you to specify how the data appears. Occasionally EBCDIC headers will contain ASCII format characters.

Display title: Allows you to quickly turn the Plot Title and Plot Description on and off.

Plot Title: Specify a multiple line title that appears at the top of the plot.

Plot Description: Specify a multiple line description of the plot properties.

Color

Allows you to adjust the brightness of the color in the resulting plot. Often hard copy plots come out too saturated, or with so much ink that they do not dry properly. This allows you to tone down the resultant plot without having to select a new color palette.


Color Palette: The current color palette that will be used for printing.

Lightness: Specifies how light or dark to print the color palette. Move the slider to see how it interactively upsets the color palette.

Fonts

Specify the fonts that should be used in the plot. Note: all font sizes are specified in points.


Title Font: Specify the font type and size for the title of the plot.

Legend Font: Specify the font type and size for all other text appearing in the side bar legend. fonts to use for side bar annotation.

Map

Specify parameters for a key map that appears in the side bar legend.  This is necessary because it is not always possible to determine which map view is most desirable, especially when multiple maps are being displayed. 


Display map: When turned on a keymap will print next to the seismic plot.

Key Map Metafile: Specify the full path of the key map windows enhanced metafile. This may be the location specified in General Basemap Properties when automatically generating a keymap.

Width: Specify the width of the key map on the resulting plot.

Height: Specify the height of the key map on the resulting plot.

Time Window

Specify an optional time window for plots. This item is useful when trying to improve the appearance of flattened sections where there is a lot of null seismic values at the top or bottom of the plot.


Use screen properties: Select this item to plot the full time window of the screen when printing.

Use time window: Select this item to limit the time range of the seismic plot to something other the range of data in the seismic display. Note: this item is useful when trying to improve the appearance of flattened sections where there is a lot of null seismic values at the top or bottom of the plot.

Start Time: Specify the start time of the data window in milliseconds. Only meaningful when Use time window has been selected.

End Time:  Specify the end time of the data window in milliseconds. Only meaningful when Use time window has been selected.

Configuration

Specify plotting configuration parameters. These are common to all projects.

Plotting Performance:  Select properties that can affect plotting performance.

Spool quickly: This is the fastest way to produce a plot. The Seismic Viewer will be finished processing the plot more quickly, allowing you to continue working. This option is most useful when printing relatively small plots, and when making a large amount of plots.

Optimize for large plots: Choose this option when trying to output large plots. The viewer will be busy processing the plot for a longer period of time. This means it will take longer for control of the viewer to be returned to you. Large plots often fail with the Spool Quickly option, so it may be necessary to use this option in order to produce output.
    Reduce plot size:  Check this item to reduce the size of the resulting plot file. Typically you will leave this item on. Selecting this option will generally improve the speed of plotting. If your plotter or computer has a small amount of memory and plots are failing turn this item off to see if it corrects the problem.

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