Re: making figures from facs histograms - did I miss something

From: oiyt (oiyt@tds.net)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 03:54:11 EST


Hello Flow-ers,
i have recently learned from BD's web site about "cellquest pro". It appears to
have answered many of the issues brought up concerning publishing.  Has anyone
gotten a hold of this software for use or evaluation? I look forward to any
replies.
thanks,
tony leger - alt



J.Paul Robinson wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
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> Professor of Immunopharmacology
> Professor of Biomedical Engineering
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