Best way to print source code and relationships

[Sam Dastidar]

I am the IT director for a medical technology company - we use Labview for our proprietary software.

We have need to print all of our VIs, source code/block diagrams and the relationships between the modules. I know how to do this and the options which are available (for complete documentation, using as a sub vi, etc).

 I have found that printing to PDF is great for an electronic copy as everything can be zoomed in on and read; but I need paper printouts as well.  When printing from windows onto paper many of the diagrams are printed so small it is hard to read notations, etc.but my question is as follows:

I am wondering how other people/companies have tackled this when there is a need to document everything within labview on paper?  Ideally we could end up with a book which has enlarged sections and could relate one page to another with metadata (sort of like those guide book maps - EG on the edges of the pages other pages are referenced for a continuation of the view). 

I am open to other suggestions though. I guess I am wondering if there is a better way because the way I am considering doing this will be quite time consuming.

[smercurio_fc]

You could try printing to HTML. That will not scale images if that's your main concern.

[mikeporter]

When I was in the Air Force tech orders (manuals) typically had drawings that were too large to fit on a single page. The way they handled it was to have pages that folded out. Obviously you couldn't print these pages on a standard printer, but you could show diagrams without a lot of rescaling.

Of course no printing scheme will work if the code is written badly (i.e. in adequate modularization, using sequence structures, wires running every which way, bad layout, etc.).

Mike...

Message Edited by mikeporter on 07-13-2007 08:07 PM

[Sam Dastidar]

Thank you both for the insights. I appreciate your taking the time.