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Exporting Publication Quality Chromatograms
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:27 pm
by trammells
Hi,
I am trying to make a publication quality picture with some chromatograms I have. I am running on a Waters system with Masslynx 4.1 software. I am sure that they have to have some place to do this, but I am completely unaware of where to find it. Has anyone else run into this? If so, would you mind posting directions of where to find the option?
Re: Exporting Publication Quality Chromatograms
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:23 pm
by Coffo
Hi trammells,
A fairly universal, albeit somewhat inelegant, technique is to install a postscript printer on your computer on the FILE: port.
You can then print the chromatogram as a PostScript file (*.ps) which should provide publication quality output, either Landscape or Portrait orientation depending on your needs. The chromatogram should be in vector graphics format and therefore scalable to any size.
If you have MS Office installed, try the "Generic" MS Publisher Color Printer; if not try and find an "HP" Laserjet with "PS" in the name (not "PCL").
You can even rename the resulting *.ps file to *.eps and embed it into MS Office documents (Word/PowerPoint etc.).
Frustrating thing is PS graphic files look great in print but poor on screen!
Good luck,
Coffo
Re: Exporting Publication Quality Chromatograms
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:09 pm
by lmh
For publication-quality work, in nearly all MS systems, I export the chromatogram data as numbers, copying into proper graph-plotting software (I use Sigmaplot, but you could use any decent package). It's more time-consuming, but that way I can get the writing in exactly the font I want, at the size I want, resize and choose colour of all lines, etc.
In MassLynx I think you want edit: copy chromatogram list.