Dissertation: figures in powerpoint? Master document? - (Sep/30/2008 )
Dear All,
I have been reading previous topics, and it seems like many people write their stuff in Word but prepares the figures in powerpoint, and then paste them back into world.
Figures: I was wondering: do you prepare an entire file in powerpoint, with all your figures, so in case you need to change the font of the legends, for example, you can do all at once? And what format do you prefer to use when you paste them back into Word? I noticed pasting as JPG is making figs kind of funny, and "paste as figure" looses definition. Enhanced format seems better, is it right?
And how about the different sections of the document? Do you link them all in a Master document, with hyperlinks to the different sections?
How about the figures pages? Right now I am opening a new word document to each figure plus its legends, and using a hyperlink to the results chapter where I mention this figure. Do you think it is a good strategy?
Thank you so much for any input, and sorry for so many questions!!
All the best,
J.
I typically did my figures in Illustrator, saved them as jpegs and pasted into Word. Gels were done in Photoshop then pasted.
Thanks a lot! 
We would make figures in Photoshop or Coral draw. The quality is better.
I have been reading previous topics, and it seems like many people write their stuff in Word but prepares the figures in powerpoint, and then paste them back into world.
Figures: I was wondering: do you prepare an entire file in powerpoint, with all your figures, so in case you need to change the font of the legends, for example, you can do all at once? And what format do you prefer to use when you paste them back into Word? I noticed pasting as JPG is making figs kind of funny, and "paste as figure" looses definition. Enhanced format seems better, is it right?
And how about the different sections of the document? Do you link them all in a Master document, with hyperlinks to the different sections?
How about the figures pages? Right now I am opening a new word document to each figure plus its legends, and using a hyperlink to the results chapter where I mention this figure. Do you think it is a good strategy?
Thank you so much for any input, and sorry for so many questions!!
All the best,
J.
powerpoint is often misused for others than presentation such as posters, figures etc. we use Coreldraw, and then export as tif or non-reduced jpg...Sigmaplot files are exported in the same way...
I misused it, too, and it works not bad. I used it to combine different graphs from sigmaplot and to add several parts of text and rectangles (to get a figure out of population densities, weather and time data). It was even accepted by a peer reviewed journal. For the final file I used photoshop to save it as a high-resolution tiff. The trick it to create first very large pictures, that then can be decreased in size without loss of resolution.
I misused it, too, and it works not bad. I used it to combine different graphs from sigmaplot and to add several parts of text and rectangles (to get a figure out of population densities, weather and time data). It was even accepted by a peer reviewed journal. For the final file I used photoshop to save it as a high-resolution tiff. The trick it to create first very large pictures, that then can be decreased in size without loss of resolution.
Me too
