Acquiring and Displaying Waveforms
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TDS 684A, TDS 744A, & TDS 784A User Manual
2. Select one of the available palettes in the side menu. Choose from Normal,
Bold, Hardcopy Preview or Monochrome.
3. If you are using a persistence display and want to vary the color of each
point depending on its persistence, choose Persistence Palettes. Then
choose Temperature, Spectral, or Gray Scale from the resulting side menu.
Choose View Palette to preview your selection on the display. Press
Persistence Palette to quit preview mode. Press Clear Menu to return to the
Palette menu.
NOTE. Use at higher room temperatures or with higher intensity display formats,
such as the white fields in the Hardcopy Preview palette, can temporarily
degrade display quality.
You can select the Hardcopy Preview palette when using certain color hardcopy
formats. The default colors in the this palette comprise a white background and
fully saturated primary colors which generally produce the best result.
To change the color of the current palette, select a color and vary these attributes:
Hue, which is the wavelength of light reflected from the surface. It varies
continuously along the color spectrum as produced by a rainbow.
Lightness, which is the amount of light reflected from the surface. It varies from
black, to the nominal color, to white.
Saturation, which is the intensity of color. Completely desaturated color is gray.
Completely saturated color of any hue is that color at its most intense level.
1. Select the main menu Change Colors item. (See Figure 3–20.)
2. Select one of the 13 colors by pressing (repeatedly) Color in the side menu.
3. If you want to use the factory default for this color, press the side menu
Reset to Factory Color.
4. Choose Hue from the side menu and use the general purpose knob or keypad
to select the desired hue. Values range from 0 to 359. Sample values are:
0 = blue, 60 = magenta, 120 = red, 180 = yellow, 240 = green, and
300 = cyan.
5. Choose Lightness from the side menu and use the general purpose knob or
keypad to select the lightness you desire. A value of 0 results in black. A
value of 50 provides the nominal color. A value of 100 results in white.
Change the Palette Colors
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