OK I give in....where are you Mario....surely the MAC software is the publishers dream....it can't be as horrific as all these messages suggest....(although I did note its really interesting changing the axis label in cellquest...) did I miss something ... Paul : Calman Prussin <CPRUSSIN@niaid.nih.gov> To: cyto-inbox Subject: RE: making figures from facs histograms Date sent: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 03:51:28 -0500 It amazes me that 5-6 years after the development of CellQuest, BD has never published a primer on "Publishing with CellQuest". Several years ago I asked a BD researcher a similar question of how they make their beautiful slides and got a "minimalist" answer. I would like to see a BD representative address this question or better yet...publish a primer. It is too late a night (or I am too lazy) to put my own Cellquest to Canvas methods to keyboard. But my general thoughts are that screen dumps are not the way to go. I use Canvas because I am fluent in its' use, not because I think it the best program. If I had to learn it fresh, I might consider Adobe Illustrator. What I would like to see in any publishing/graphic procedure: 1. Excellent resolution 2. Ability to rename axes, add arrows, labels 3. Ability to change the color of the dot plot. Number 3 is very important to me for slide making, as rare events are difficult to see with black on a white background. I use yellow on a dark blue background. I did not see mention of that capacity in any of previous emails (can they do it?). Canvas gives you all of those. Calman > ---------- > From: Idit Hazan > Sent: Wednesday, January 3, 2001 5:37 PM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: making figures from facs histograms > > > 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 > > J.Paul Robinson, PhD PH:(765)4940757 Professor of Immunopharmacology Professor of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University FAX:(765)4940517 EMAIL:jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu WEB: http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
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