Paste editable graph in Powerpoint
a.kaiser
Alexander
Alexander
Alexander
Windows OLE (object linking and embedding) is very complex and difficult to implement so I don't expect to see it in the near future.
If we get a lot of requests for it, that would move it up on our priority list but it would also move other priorities down.
Sorry for the bad news.
September 27, 2010 at 02:14 pm - Permalink
FWIW, I am reading elsewhere that Mac <-> PC compatibility is promised to be much improved in the 2011 version of Office, with specific reference to OLE implementation. How that relates to differences in OLE/Windows versus whatever/Mac is beyond me. Reading between the lines however ... any attempts to create OLE or whatever linking of Igor Pro with MS Office software now will a) require different mindsets to make it work on both platforms, b) may actually only work on a PC and not at all or sparingly on a Mac, and c) break in the newest release of Office in three months anyway.
With the response that Howard has given, a "better" approach to entice Origin users might be to find data analysis problems that highlight the clear strengths of Igor Pro vs Origin.
That of course also applies for Igor Pro vs Excel ... or vs ProFit ... or vs MatLab ... or vs ... Indeed, I wonder (to myself mostly) whether IgorExchange would be a proper place to post such comparisons. I think I have seen such things done on other software "support" sites, for example as something akin to a "Igor Pro vs Other Software" forum. Follow ups to this idea (if the interest arises) might be better directed to the IgorExchange.com forum.
In any event, good luck in your efforts to convert your colleagues.
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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville
September 27, 2010 at 02:35 pm - Permalink
Development of this capability to allow dynamic link back to a graph/table/whatever copied from Igor Pro and pasted within Curio would be phenomenal!!!!!! Would that I knew MacOS level programming ....
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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville
October 5, 2010 at 12:25 pm - Permalink
0. Copy-paste the desired graph from Igor Pro into Powerpoint
1. In Igor Pro, do "Save Graph Copy..." to save the desired graph as a pxp file
2. In Powerpoint, do "Insert -> Object" and then choose "Create from file" and select the pxp file from step 1
3. Place the pxp object next to the copy-pasted graph--off slide if desired
The pxp file is now contained as an object in the Powerpoint file. If someone needs to make modifications to the graph, they can double click the pxp object in Powerpoint, modify the graph under Igor Pro, and then copy-paste the new version back into Powerpoint.
As long as you first do "Save" in Igor Pro, the pxp object will be updated when you do "Save" in Powerpoint.
You can do this with any Windows application with capability to insert file objects.
The attachment shows an example (Powerpoint 2007).
August 4, 2011 at 06:12 am - Permalink
Yes ... this is a good trick in the meantime! Create the graph, save it as a stand-alone experiment, and then embed the graph and the experiment both in your application. The downside is, you have to copy/paste back the graph should you make any changes to it. In other words, the link-back to update the graph from IgorPro to the given app is not dynamic, it is manual.
This trick should work with Mac too (though I've not tested it) ... copy / paste as an object a link to the .pxp file that stores the graph.
As a note, the SnapIt package would do step 1 with some additional advantages (eg being able to save notes with the graph).
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J. J. Weimer
Chemistry / Chemical & Materials Engineering, UAHuntsville
August 4, 2011 at 09:37 am - Permalink