About Objects
Selecting and Deselecting Objects
You can select any object in the Treeview or in a viewport (see Viewports). When you select objects in Adams PostProcessor, they appear highlighted in both the viewport and the treeview. You can turn off the highlighting as explained in Setting Up Highlighting. You can also deselect all objects at once.
To select objects in the treeview or screen:
■Click the object using the Select tool 
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. To select multiple objects:
■To select a single object, click the object using the left mouse button.
■To select a continuous set of objects, you can:
■Drag the mouse over the objects that you want to select or click on one object, hold down the Shift key, and click the last object in the set. All objects between the two selected objects are highlighted.
■Click on the first object, hold down the Shift key, and then use the up or down arrow to select a block of objects.
■To append to the list of selected objects, hold down the Ctrl key, and click the objects. You can do this in either the treeview or a viewport.
■To remove objects from the selected list, hold down the Ctrl key, and click the selected object.
In treeview, you can also select all objects of a particular type. For more information, see Filtering the Treeview.
To deselect objects:
■From the Edit menu, select Deselect All.
Tip: | Ctrl + D. |
Renaming Objects
To rename an object displayed in the treeview:
1. In the Treeview, select the object you want to rename.
2. Either:
■On the Edit menu, select Rename. Type the new name, and then select OK.
■Click the object again. Type the new name, and then press Enter.
To rename any object:
1. From the Edit menu, select Rename.
2. Click the More button 
to display a list of objects.
to display a list of objects. 3. Select an object. Double-click an object with a + in front of it to see more objects.
4. Select OK.
5. Type the new name, and then press OK.
Deleting Objects
You can delete any objects selected in the treeview. In addition, you can use the Database Navigator to find an object to delete.
Adams PostProcessor deletes the contents of an object when it deletes the object. For example, Adams PostProcessor deletes the plots on a page when you delete the page.
To delete selected objects:
1. Select the objects that you'd like to delete. Use the Treeview to make the selection easy.
2. From the Edit menu, select Delete.
Tip: | To delete a page, from the Main toolbar, select  . |
To delete an object through the Database Navigator:
1. Clear any selection of objects.
2. From the Edit menu, select Delete.
3. Use the Database Navigator to find the object you'd like to delete, and then select OK.
Printing Plots, Animations, and Reports
You can print Pages directly to a printer or store them in a file for printing at a later time.
Notes: | Adams PostProcessor only prints the portion of a report or table that fits on the paper. ■To print a multi-page report, open the report in a browser and print from there. ■To print a multi-page table, export the table in HTML format, open the report in a browser, and print from there. For information on exporting a table as HTML, see Exporting Data. |
Pages with only reports and tables on them print significantly faster than pages with mixed views (for example, plot and report), depending on the type of printer being used.
To print pages:
1. On the File menu, select Print.
Tip: | On the Main toolbar, select  . |
The Print dialog box appears.
2. Set the printing options as shown in the table below and select OK.
To cancel printing:
■Select Cancel or press the Esc key.
To print: | Do the following: |
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To a printer | ■On Linux, in the Print to area, select Printer and enter an operating system command to execute the print job (for example, lpr -Psp2 or lp -c -Ppd1). ■On Windows, select also show Windows print dialog box to display the default Windows printer dialog box from which you can select a printer. The dialog box appears after you select OK. |
Only to a file | In the Print to area, select File and enter the location and name of the file to which you want to print the page. Note that if you print more than one page to a file, Adams PostProcessor uses the page number of each page as the name of the file. |
In a different format | If you selected to print to a file, select the type of file format. You can select BMP, XPM, JPG, TIFF and PNG. Note: If you select jpg format, you can set the level of quality. |
In color or black and white | Select either Black and White or Color. If you select Black and White, Adams PostProcessor prints all colors in black and the background in white even if you are using a color printer. Selecting black and white is generally considered more readable for presentations, but you should use altering line style or line thickness to distinguish between the curves on the plot. If you print a plot in color but send it to a black-and-white printer, the printer approximates the colors using grayscale. |
At a different orientation | Select the type of orientation: Landscape or Portrait. |
On a different size paper | Select the size of paper or, to accept the current default paper for the printer, select Default. |
A particular page or range of pages | Select to print the current page, all pages, or a range of pages. |