Hi All: I'd like to toss in my $0.02 worth regarding graphic files and the like. I use a PC as my platform of choice but also use Macs with the Calibur and Vantage and getting info off these cytometers has been a challenge for which I like to think I have a solution. I have found WinMDI indispensable for aiding this process (Kudos' to Joe!). For Word/PPoint applications I take the CQ file and load it into WinMDI, get the histogram the way I want it, and use the copy feature using Bit map in either DDIB or DIB formats. The histograms come out OK in PPoint, a bit chunky for my liking but they are not very scalable if I need to change their size. However, this is one approach to get the job done. The best way I have found to move histograms is within WinMDI, where I copy and export the histogram as a metafile and then import the metafile into Corel Presentations (PPoint 2000 won't slurp metafiles, but I think PPoint 97 still does...). Once it is a metafile within Presentations then the entire thing is scalable and each item (the histogram itself, the labels, the axis, etc) are treated as individual units (or layers) that can be modified within Presentations. It is a joy to work with the histograms in this way. For me, being WPerfect based, this is the best route. The histograms do not come out "chunky", they can be scaled to almost any size and make grants and papers easy. If I save the figure (histogram) within Presentations, I can export it in a way that PPoint can read it and work with it as well -- this works well and the histograms come out better than when I try to go from WinMDI to Word/PPoint. In my view, Office 2000 is not the "sharpest knife in the drawer" when it comes to compatibility (playing well with others!). So if there is, in fact, a way to get PPoint 2000 to import metafiles then this could work as well. Until then Corel Office works the best for me. Side note: I have found that clipboard copying from CQ to Mac PPoint, and then taking that Mac PPoint file and moving it to an PC disk and trying to pull it into PC PPoint, for me, has been a recipe for disaster (Not getting what I want...). That's why I tried using WinMDI for this purpose. Any questions or something I may have missed in this learning process, by all means holler. I hope this helps, David =========== David L. Haviland, Ph.D., Asst. Prof. Immunology University of Texas - Houston, H.S.C. Institute of Molecular Medicine, R907 2121 W. Holcombe Blvd., Houston, TX 77030 713.500.2413-Voice//713.500.2424-FAX ----------------- If everything seems to be going so well, you have obviously overlooked something. ==========
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