Paul,

If you're just wanting to adjust things like fonts and line sizes on the plot for publication, then you have the option to save the plot as a metafile from the PGPlot window and import it into PowerPoint.  Then convert the metafile into a drawing object with the "ungroup" feature.  From this point you can change fonts, line shapes, colors, etc. to get the plot how you want it to look for publication.  You can then re-save that slide as a picture (gif, tiff, metafile, etc) to be imported into the manuscript.  This can get time intensive, but it's an alternative if all you want to do is adjust fonts and line colors/sizes.

One caveat though, don't change the data!  You can easily and unknowingly change the data if you're not careful (performing an action on one part of the drawing object without realizing another is highlighted for example) so always compare the final product to the original to make sure it's the same.

-Rich

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Paul Bingham <p.a.bingham@sheffield.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi, I wonder if you can help:

I'm using Athena to process some XANES data and wish to export the derivative
data so that I can use a package such as Excel to prepare the data for
publication. However, the derivative data that is presented visually in the
graphics window is a much cleaner, smoother data set than the one I get when I
export it in either deriv Mu(E) or deriv Norm(E). I tried the smoothing option
in Data-Smooth mu(E) with 3 iterations and again with 10 iterations on the
interpolative smoothing. Both gave far noisier data than the data shown in the
Graphics window.

Please can you tell me how to get exported derivative data that will be (more or
less) the same as that shown in the graphics window? Basically I' hoping for
WYSIWYG if that's possible? Any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome
and thanks for your time.

--
Dr. Paul Bingham
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Immobilisation Science Laboratory
Dept. of Engineering Materials
University of Sheffield
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Email: p.a.bingham@sheffield.ac.uk
Direct Line: (0114) 2225473



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