At 01:16 PM 10/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I used all of the "file, convert" options,
>and they produce a file called "ezigraphic.out." However, I cannot get
>powerpoint to recognize the program. It won't paste it into the slide.
Greg,
I'll tell you what I do. If it's inefficient, presumably somebody else
will give you a more-desirable alternative. But for now...
What I do is ask EI to convert the graphic into Postscript. When the
output file is created, change the name so that it has a Postscript suffix
(*.ps or *.eps). The file then should be meaningful to a Postscript
printer, but it still won't go into Powerpoint -- you'll try to look at the
graph and see words like "contains information for a Postscript printer."
You need to insert some thumbnail information into the file using a format
that Office Suite or Corel's Suite will be able to visualize for you (e.g.,
TIFF). In the past, I've used Ghostview, the shareware system built off of
Ghostscript. Ghostview also lets you crop off unwanted GAUSS labels and
whatnot. The saved version of your graph will be meaningful to MS products
and you can add attractive labels in Powerpoint.
There are two things that I've never been able to master completely, and
that still remains somewhat mysterious to me.
1) I've never figured out a way to rip off the dateline that GAUSS/EI puts
in the graph. I've cropped it out, so that one generally does not see it,
but it stays in the file and has a habit of reappearing at the most
inopportune times. I asked Gary once how he solves the problem, but as I
recall the solution involved pulling the graph into a software package that
was not available to me (and maybe wasn't even available on PC, I don't
remember).
2) You have to be careful about the resolution that comes out of the
software if you are going to print a paper. Sometimes you get the
high-resolution Postscript graph and sometimes you the low-resolution TIFF
version. Nor have I quite figured out the sorcery that determines which
one is going to appear at any one time. I've had to get a publisher to run
the graph again because they initially included the low-res version from
the file I'd sent them.
In the past, I think I've had to choose between problem #1 and problem
#2. I either get the software to print a low-resolution version of the
graph, or it comes out with the dateline that I try to crop out.
Hope this helps.
steve
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Gary et al.,
I have used ezi to generate a tomography plot, and I would like to import
it into a powerpoint slide. I used all of the "file, convert" options,
and they produce a file called "ezigraphic.out." However, I cannot get
powerpoint to recognize the program. It won't paste it into the slide.
What should I do?
Greg
Gregory A. Pettis
Political Science
UNC Chapel Hill
Polling and Teaching Fellow
Elon University
Elon, N.C. 27244
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