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 > > > > > 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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