I'll second Igor Pro. Jeff Sent from my iPhone On Mar 26, 2013, at 3:57 PM, "Bare, Simon R" wrote:

Igor

Simon

-----Original Message----- From: ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov [mailto:ifeffit-bounces@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Eva Vanamee Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:51 PM To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: [Ifeffit] plotting

Thanks everyone for the helpful comments! I'll go with exporting to Origin. A final question. I am now a Mac user, is there a good alternative to Origin?

Best,

- Eva

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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:13:17 -0400 From: Eva Vanamee To: ifeffit@millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov Subject: [Ifeffit] generating high res figures Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Hi,

I'm in the happy stages of making figures. I'd like to know how to change figure legends, make high resolution figures from a fit, etc.

For instance: I saved the session file. Can I go back to a particular fit to make a figure or do I need to rerun it? Can I change the figure legends? I used sample 1 and I want to give it a different name Can I use special characters (e.g. Greek letters)? Can I adjust the resolution for different formats (talk vs. publication)?

I am running Demeter 0.9.9.9 under XP.

Thanks in advance for the help!

- Eva

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Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:25:01 -0400 From: Scott Calvin To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] generating high res figures Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi Eva,

Demeter is not intended to be used to produce publication-quality figures. It's best to export the data, fits, etc., and then use a proper graphing program to generate figures. Even a spreadsheet will do in a pinch, although most of us use dedicated scientific graphing software.

--Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College

On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Eva Vanamee wrote:

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Hi,

I'm in the happy stages of making figures. I'd like to know how to change figure legends, make high resolution figures from a fit, etc.

For instance: I saved the session file. Can I go back to a particular fit to make a figure or do I need to rerun it? Can I change the figure legends? I used sample 1 and I want to give it a different name Can I use special characters (e.g. Greek letters)? Can I adjust the resolution for different formats (talk vs. publication)?

I am running Demeter 0.9.9.9 under XP.

Thanks in advance for the help!

- Eva

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Message: 3 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:51:36 -0400 From: Jason Gaudet To: XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] generating high res figures Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

And to do this, use the Artemis Plot dialog box to generate the chart you want (e.g. the data and fit in magnitude R-space), click the "Save Next Plot to File" button at the very bottom of the dialog box, and click the correct plot button at the top (e.g. R). This lets you save the plot as an ASCII file.

-Jason

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Scott Calvin wrote:

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Hi Eva,

Demeter is not intended to be used to produce publication-quality figures. It's best to export the data, fits, etc., and then use a proper graphing program to generate figures. Even a spreadsheet will do in a pinch, although most of us use dedicated scientific graphing software.

--Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College

On Mar 26, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Eva Vanamee wrote:

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Hi,

I'm in the happy stages of making figures. I'd like to know how to change figure legends, make high resolution figures from a fit, etc.

For instance: I saved the session file. Can I go back to a particular fit to make a figure or do I need to rerun it? Can I change the figure legends? I used sample 1 and I want to give it a different name Can I use special characters (e.g. Greek letters)? Can I adjust the resolution for different formats (talk vs. publication)?

I am running Demeter 0.9.9.9 under XP.

Thanks in advance for the help!

- Eva

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Matt is correct. The graphics in Larch are much better than the graphics in the old version of ifeffit. I may go back to using the command line. Jeff On Mar 26, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Matt Newville wrote:

The poor quality of the graphics in the older versions of Ifeffit / Horae was always been a disappointment to me. It's certainly reasonable to say that exporting to another program is necessary, but I believe the latest versions should and do have much higher quality graphics. Larch certainly has much better graphics than Ifeffit. See for example: http://xraypy.github.com/xraylarch/xafs/xafsft.html#examples-forward-xafs-fo...

In the on-line docs, the graphics may look mediocre because they are scaled, but if you click on them you will see the PNG file created directly by saving the image from the Plot window (or cut with Ctrl-C and pasted directly into presentation software). Another example (from the feffit chapter): http://xraypy.github.com/xraylarch/_images/feffit_feo_r.png

shows the Greek characters and mathematical rendering, generated using latex notation. Depending on what you need, these may publication quality graphs,and they can be copied directly from the Plotting windows into other applications (for example, Ctrl-C to copy to clipboard works). The axis labels (plain text or latex), colors, symbols, line widths, and so on can be adjusted from a Plot Configuration window after the plot is drawn, see http://xraypy.github.com/xraylarch/plotting/index.html#interactive-use-of-th...

There are many things that cannot be done simply with these plots (figure-in-figure, complex stacking), but in principle, Larch can be used to generate any of the kinds of plots available from the matplotlib library, see http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html

This list of alternatives is pretty near exhaustive: http://alternativeto.net/software/originlab/ Although I personally use Origin. On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Scott Calvin wrote:

Hi Eva,

Personally, I'm pretty happy with Pro Fit. It's a commercial product (like Origin) but is much cheaper. It's also got the stupidest name imaginable, since Google will assume you misspelled "profit." With that in mind the website is http://www.quansoft.com . If you're willing to spend more, Igor Pro is a good product.

--Scott Calvin Sarah Lawrence College

P.S. Disclosure: I have no financial relationship with either software producer.

On Mar 26, 2013, at 4:50 PM, Eva Vanamee wrote:

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Thanks everyone for the helpful comments! I'll go with exporting to Origin. A final question. I am now a Mac user, is there a good alternative to Origin?

Best,

- Eva

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