>Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 11:21:20 -0800 (PST) >From: 'FR' Frank Radella II <fradella@u.washington.edu> >To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu> >Subject: data conversion >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >Does anyone know of software to convert histograms into graphs on >Powerpoint. Data was collected on Coulter Counter cytometer with EPICS II >software. Hi Frank, I know of two ways to do this; I am assuming that you are using the DOS based workstation software suplied with the ELITE, obviously if you have the windows based version from ACS you can just copy and paste between applications. O.K, first I'll describe the easy way; i) Get yourself a DOS screen grabber (I use the excellent DOS shareware TSR 'GRAFFIX') ii) Grab the histogram of interest to a GIF file. iii) Open in your image software of choice (on the Macintosh I would recommend GraphicConverter 2.06 (shareware). iv) Convert to monochrome v) Invert the image. vi) Crop the image as it suits you. v) Copy and Paste to powerpoint. The above is what I use most of the time, However, sometimes you may want to replot the data prior to pasting into powerpoint, for example, a few years ago I needed to convert Histograms to cumulative frequency plots to do Kolmanogorav-Smirnov analysis. Here's how I did it- i)Open your saved histogram (.HST file) in excell. ii)Strip off irrelevant header data and rearange data into flat file format (I have an excell macro to do this somewhere) ii)Chart data however you like and paste into powerpoint. Of the two methods, the first is by far the easiest although the second gives you far more control over your data. Best wishes. Arnold -------------------------------- Arnold R Pizzey Department of Haematology UCL Med. School 98 Chenies Mews London WC1E 6HX, England Tel 44-171-209-6234 FAX 44-171-209-6222 a.pizzey@ucl.ac.uk -------------------------------
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