Re: Exporting figures from cell quest: how?

Matthias Haury (mhaury@pasteur.fr)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:04:06 +0100

Al,

Talking about Cellquest 3.xx. you don't need to make screen shots of your
graphs, you can just copy-paste them in any PICT format accepting program
(Canvas, Claris Draw etc), the only thing you have to do, is put the plots
to the right size in Cellquest first. You only loose resolution if you
start changing the size of your plots in the drawing program (the plots are
copied as bitmaps).

I agree (and have told this already several times to BDIS) however, that
it's ridiculus that they don't export the textparts in editable format (so
you can just change the labels etc in the drawing program), also if you
ungroup the plot in Canvas you get several layers of dots... which is very
bizarre.

But you don't need to make screenshots, as they don't give you any higher
resolution either (72 dpi max and you can't change the size afterwards
either).

Hope that clarifies things a bit.

Cheers,

Matthias

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Matthias Haury Flowcytometry Dept Immunology Institut Pasteur
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>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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