Here is the technique to produce perfect plots for your papers from CellQUEST. What you need: CellQUEST (of course) Adobe Illustrator Get your plot all prettied up the way you want it, keeping in mind that black and white will be inverted after output (just like you're printing it). Now, select Print in CellQUEST. Change the drop down box in the upper right hand corner from "Printer" to "File" The button a the bottom of the page will now say "Save" Click "Save" A dialog box will come up asking for a file name. Give it one and save it somewhere you can find it. Now go to Illustrator and open the file you just saved. Click on one of the plots. You will see that all of the items on the page are selected, including a region around the plots the size of a CellQUEST page. Press "Apple-Shit-G" to ungroup these items. Click in open space to unselect everything Click on the edge of the page to select just the underlying page (should select a big rectangle around the outside, but nothing else. Press delete. Now you have your plots in Illustrator, and the fonts have been sent in, so the text on the plot is actual type! Double click on one of the axis labels. You'll get the flashing cursor indicating you can edit the text. And because it's real text, no jagged edges! Hope that helps you out. Good luck. -- Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. -Jules Henry Poincare (1854-1912) Keith Bahjat Graduate Assistant University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida Phone: (352) 392-4887 Fax: (352) 392-5393 kbahjat@ufl.edu on 1/3/01 17:37, Idit Hazan at ihazan@uci.edu wrote: > > hi > does anyone know how to convert the histograms that come off the Cell-Quest > program into something that can be copied and pasted into a graphic > software (such as adobe or canvas), in order to make complicated figures? > i was told cell-quest in not very user friendly and that people print their > histograms, then scan them and use the scans as graphic files. there has to > be a more elegant way... > Idit Hazan > University of California, Irvine >
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