[Ifeffit] An Ifeffit question.

[Richard Mayes]

There's another way to get better looking plots out of Athena and Artemis
(for those of us who can't completely give up microsoft just yet),
although it's probably a little more time intensive than the options Bruce
mentioned...in the pgplot menu, save the image as a metafile, then import
the metafile into Powerpoint and convert it into a drawing object with the
drawing toolbar (click on the image, then click "ungroup").  That gives
you the options of broadening the lines, changing the colors, enlarging
the numbers, etc.  The drawing object can then be saved as a jpeg and
imported into various other programs.

Rich Mayes

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> On Friday 18 May 2007, Christian Lange wrote:
>> I am using "your" Athena and so on-software package for the evaluation
>> of my XAS-measurements. So far everything is working fine, but i have
>> one problem. The plots of this "graphics window" are a bit inconvenient
>> if it comes to a publication, because I cannot change line styles,
>> colors and so on. Or at least I don't know how to do this.
>>
>> That's why I want to ask you, whether it is possible to get the data for
>> the fourier transform plots in some sort of ASCII-format to import it in
>> Origin. Maybe with some file jiggling at the DOS prompt level?
>
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> This is a good question for the Ifeffit mailing list, so I am taking
> the liberty of CCing my answer there.
>
> This should be answered in the FAQ -- it certainly is frequently asked
> in my email!
>
> I completely agree that the plots made by pgplot are not pretty enough
> for publication and I suspect that Matt would not argue either.  We
> use pgplot because it works well within the context of Ifeffit,
> because it is free and redistributable, and because it works
> equivalently on Windows, Unix, and the Mac.  Matt and I both prefer to
> spend our limited time making good XAS software -- neither of us
> really felt particularly inclined to make and maintain publication
> quality plotting software.  There are, after all, plenty of excellent
> packages out there for making beautiful plots.
>
> The trick, then, is the link between Athena and your favorite plotting
> package. In the File menu, there are a number of option for exporting
> data into plain-text, column-data files.  These can then be imported
> easily into your favorite plotting program.  The File menu options
> from "Save mu(E)" through "Save chi(q)" will save the current data
> group (i.e. the one highlighted in the groups list and the one whose
> parameters are currently on display in the main window).  The mu(E)
> file, for instance, contains columns for energy data, background, I0,
> pre-edge line, and post-edge polynomial.  You can import these columns
> into your favorite plotting program and have your way with them.  The
> chi(R) file, as another example, has columns of R, real part,
> imaginary part, magnitude, phase, and back-transform window in R.
>
> Below those options is a submenu labeled "Save marked groups as
> data".  The idea there is to save column data file where each column
> contains the data from a marked group (i.e. the ones with the little
> purple button in the groups list clicked).  There are options for
> saving data in this way in each of the plotting spaces.
>
> Finally, it is possible to have some control over how the plots are
> made.  In the Settings menu, select "Edit preferences".  Then open up
> the Plot branch by clicking on its little plus sign.  The options c0
> through c9 and the linetypes option might be of interest to your.
> Nothing among the preferences will magically make pgplot prettier, but
> it may help you visualize your data.
>
> HTH,
> B
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