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Hi,

I am using Igor pro 6.36 in a windows laptop. My colleague also uses Igor pro 6.36 in his mac computer.
When we share an experiment file,

1. Layout size is reset to the default value.
When I change layout size in my windows laptop, it shrink to the default value in his mac, and vice versa.
How can we share a size of a layout? Because of some issues, we want to use a layout, not a subwindow layout mode in a graph.

2. Igor shows gray boxes for some copy-and-paste graphics.
I use MS Powerpoint to draw figures. When I copy directly from Powerpoint and paste it to Igor in my windows laptop, it works.
But Igor shows gray boxes for this graphics in mac. When I do this drawing job in a mac computer, I cannot see the graphics in my windows laptop.
How can we share the graphics made in Powerpoint?

Thanks,

Chanil
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Layout size is reset to the default value.


Page layouts are platform-specific. Igor attempts to preserve the orientation. For details execute:
DisplayHelpTopic "Page Setup Compatibility"


A workaround is to use the PrintSettings operation to set the page setup after opening the file on Macintosh.

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Igor shows gray boxes for some copy-and-paste graphics.

Some graphics formats are platform-specific. For details execute:
DisplayHelpTopic "Picture Compatibility"


For most purposes I recommend converting pictures to 4X PNG format.

February 18, 2015 at 08:59 am - Permalink

jeon1226 wrote:
1. Layout size is reset to the default value.
When I change layout size in my windows laptop, it shrink to the default value in his mac, and vice versa.
How can we share a size of a layout? Because of some issues, we want to use a layout, not a subwindow layout mode in a graph.

I'm going to let someone else answer this.

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2. Igor shows gray boxes for some copy-and-paste graphics.
I use MS Powerpoint to draw figures. When I copy directly from Powerpoint and paste it to Igor in my windows laptop, it works.
But Igor shows gray boxes for this graphics in mac. When I do this drawing job in a mac computer, I cannot see the graphics in my windows laptop.
How can we share the graphics made in Powerpoint?

No doubt on Windows you are pasting an EMF picture, and on Macintosh probably a PDF. These are not cross-platform graphics formats. The best format for sharing cross-platform is PNG. To convert the graphics in your notebooks to PNG, choose Edit->Select All, then Notebook->Special->Convert to PNG.

PNG is a bitmap format. You may need to choose High Resolution to make it look good even when zoomed. For the most part you can ignore the warning about taking a lot of memory.

John Weeks
WaveMetrics, Inc.
support@wavemetrics.com

February 18, 2015 at 09:04 am - Permalink