RE: Exporting figures from cell quest: how?

Calman Prussin (CPRUSSIN@atlas.niaid.nih.gov)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 12:43:52 -0500

I'm not sure what the resolution of a screen dump (command-shift-3),
but I suspect it could be a problem in some situations. I simply copy
(command-C) from CellQuest and paste (command-V) into Canvas. I have
not noticed a problem with the label fonts, but I replace them with
more publication appropriate axis labels anyhow.
Below are the Cellquest 3 to Canvas 5 tips I keep to remind myself.

CANVAS 5, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

1. Allot as much RAM as possible to both Canvas and Cellquest (>12 MB
each)
2. Breath slowly and repeat "This is only a program, it is not
my enemy".
3. Select a dotplot in CellQuest.
4. Copy in CellQuest,
Paste into Canvas.
5. Ungroup dotplot and using the eraser, remove any
axis markers you wish.
6. Dot Plots consist of a number of grouped
components (dots, plot frame, markers).
One of those is a white rectangle. Ungroup the dotplot and remove the
white rectangle, as it often interferes. Regroup.
7. Any color
changes (i.e. red subpopulation) need to done in CellQuest.
8. Don't
rescale dot plots after pasting in from CellQuest.
9. Expect color to
take more time and frustration than B/W.

Good luck,

Calman
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From: Al Sabirsh
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 1997 8:25 AM
To: cyto-inbox
Subject: Exporting figures from cell quest: how?

Hello to all,

We would like to publish some figures/diagrams/pictures produced by
Cell
Quest on a power Mac. I tried printing them to a file (which
subsequently prints out just fine) but nothing I have that can
normally
open postscript files (Photoshop, Canvas, Word etc.) will read them.
Copying everything to the clipboard works, but there is a loss of
resolution, particularly in the fonts, that requires lots of fiddly
correction. So.....

How is everybody else doing this? It seems ridiculous to have to
reconstruct the figures manually. What am I missing? The list
archive
doesn't seem to contain any info on this.

Al Sabirsh


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