when you say Equipment do you mean HARDWARE and SOFTWARE? We have a Polaroid HR6000 unit that has both Parallel and SCSI interfaces. The Mac should be able to use the SCSI interface the only issue is then do you have the softare to make the Xfer from the mac to the Slide Printer. Chris On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:30:31 -0500, David L. Haviland, Ph.D. wrote: > >At 13:39 6/22/99 -0700, Kellar, Kathryn L. (Kathi) wrote: >> >>There are many of us who would like a response to this. >> >>thanks, >> >>Kathryn L. Kellar, PhD > >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Moss, Delynn M. [SMTP:dmm3@CDC.GOV] >>> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 11:21 AM >>> To: Cytometry Mailing List >>> Subject: Mac to PC >>> >>> >>> To all CellQuest users: >>> >>> We have purchased BD's FACStation for our FACScan. The FACStation >>> includes >>> a MacIntosh computer with OS 8.1 and CellQuest software. So far the >>> system >>> seems to be working great, but currently we do not have the capability to >>> make 35 mm slides of plots created by CellQuest. Our slide making >>> equipment >>> is PC based. What is the preferred software to put on the Mac so that >>> CellQuest files can be PC converted. Would something like PowerPoint or >>> Corel Draw be sufficient for the CellQuest files and a third party >>> software >>> to do the conversion? > >Delynn: > >Being in the same situation, let me toss my $0.02 worth as to how I work >this... > >If it is a complex slide, or I want to maintain the color of CQ, what I do >is cut and paste from CQ into either Word or Powerpoint on the Mac. The >disk, however, is IBM formatted. I can then pull the figures over onto the >IBM and into the IBM versions of Word or Powerpoint. This isn't perfect by >any means as I find I lose something everytime I cross platforms - mainly >some of the histogram colors. If I plotted one in a bright cherry red, >when I get it over to the IBM and into Powerpoint, it tends to look more >burgundy colored. > >If it isnt too complex, then what I do the majority of the time is access >the listmode file directly with WinMDI, through either a unix server or >floppy disk. I work up the histogram the way I want with or without the >statistics, and cut and past that directly into Presentations (WPerf equiv >of Powerpoint). There is also no reason why Powerpoint wont work either. >I can then save it as a wmf or jpg or any other format that suits me. > >Most slide makers should be able to see and read Word, Wordperfect, or >Corel draw files as long as they are wmf or jpg. > >When going from WinMDI directly to Corel Draw, I find the histogram a bit >more "rough" looking - fonts don't look right but can be corrected. I >don't know why. For me, there is much less work going directly from >WinMDI to Presentations/Powerpoint. From there I can go with a slidemaker >or embedd the histogram into a grant, lecture, or manuscript. > >Hope this helps, and does anyone have an easier solution? > >David > >============================= > David L. Haviland, Ph.D. > Asst. Prof. Immunology > University of Texas - Houston, H.S.C. > Institute of Molecular Medicine > 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd. > Houston, TX 77030 > Internet:"dhavilan@imm2.imm.uth.tmc.edu" > Voice: 713.500.2413 FAX: 713.500.2424 > ------------------------------------------------------ >The hardness of butter is directly proportional to the softness >of the bread. >============================= >
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