In a lot of occasions, JMP utilizes plot to show results. My question is how to export the plots JMP generates with all the components such as legend, x axis, y axis, etc.
Not sure what you mean. There's copy/paste and Save As, which both support various formats. You might be looking for the selection tool (aka "fat plus cursor") to select just what you want to copy.
I like to use Save As>Word under the file menu. This saves and formats multiple plots and analyses on the same report (such as multiple distributions). Anything that is showing that you don't want in the Word document can be compressed by clicking on the blue triange at the top of the graph or the analyses. So you can print graphs with all data, some data, no data depending on what is showing. You can also close graphs. If you want to close all of the same analyses (such as quantiles on distribution) press the ctrl key while clicking on the blue triangle.
Save As>Word appears to be a Windows only option. Cannot find it in JMP 8 for Mac.
However a JMP Journal from from one or several composite reports can be customized in a similar way (i.e. by clicking the triangles) and then easily be printed as a pdf using Mac OS X built-in pdf capabilities.
