plot2 module <output>
This module allows the output of the display to a file,
in one of several formats (currently PS, EPS, and HPGL).
The picture looks the same as the display on the screen
except that the ruler numbers appear outside the nominal
bounding box and the negative contours for black and white
output appear dashed.
In general, the HPGL output is not expected to be reliable
(it has been tailored to look good in Microsoft Word v7,
but this has a quirky interpreter).
- {file name} <output_file>
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The file name where the output is to be written.
- {title} <output_title>
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The (optional) title for the output.
The title does not appear for EPS output.
- {size} <output_size>
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The size (width and height) for the output.
- {picture : margins} <size_mode>
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This determines whether the size given is for the picture
itself or for the margins of the picture.
- {inches : cm} <size_units>
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This determines whether the size is in inches or cms.
- {2D display : 1D display} <display_mode>
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This determines whether the 2-dimensional or 1-dimensional
display is the one for which the output is made.
- {time & date : no time & date} <time_date>
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This determines whether the time and date appears in the
output. For EPS they do not appear.
- {file name : no file name} <show_name>
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This determines whether the file name appears in the
output. For EPS they do not appear.
- {A4 : A3 : A : B : other} <paper_size> <other_size>
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This determines the size of paper that will be used.
The 'other' text field uses the same units as chosen above.
Be warned: the left side of the text field for 'other'
will become hidden if the module is sized too narrowly.
- {portrait : landscape} <paper_dirn>
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This determines the orientation of the picture on paper.
Portrait means height > width, landscape the opposite.
- {black and white : color or grayscale} <output_color>
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This determines whether the colors of the display are
converted to black or left as they are defined. Note,
PS black and white printers convert color to grayscale.
For HPGL plotters, black and white means pen 1, otherwise
pens 1-8 are used, the colors being mapped in some order.
Currently, Black = 1, Red = 2, Green = 3, Blue = 4,
Yellow = 5, Purple = 6, Cyan = 7.
- {Postscript (PS) : Encapsulated PS (EPS) : HPGL : XPM} <output_gl>
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This determines the graphical language for the output.
The difference between PS and EPS output is miniscule:
the EPS option ignores the title for the output, and
the header lines in the two cases are different.
XPM is a raster format which various third party software
can import, this creates a raster exactly the size of the
display, and ignores all the other options except for the
display mode (1D or 2D).
- {save} <save>
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Calculate the contours and save the result in the file
that is named. The current parameters (e.g. the region
and contour levels) as defined are the ones used.
- {dismiss}
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Close the module (the parameters are remembered).
- {help}
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Display this message.
Azara help: plot2/output / W. Boucher / azara@bioc.cam.ac.uk