Exporting nice spectrum pdfs

Analysis Version 3
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I use the spectrum print to file comment to export nice images of spectra as a pdf file. However the axis of these always look terrible when the font size is greater than 12. It cuts off axis numbers and axis labels.

Any ways to fix this?

Current export parameters

A4, portrait pdf foreground black, background white, line thickness 1, strip padding 16, image dpi 300 scaling 80%. then default font, I try size 20

Many thanks,

Joe

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Hmmm - this is clearly a problem and not linked to whether there is space on the page or not. I’m not quite sure how easy it is going to be to fix this, but I’ll get someone on the case.

I fear for the time being you might have to change the font sizes in a graphics package. Exporting to .svg and editing in something like Inkscape (free and very intuitive to use), CorelDraw or Illustrator is usually quite straight forward.

Vicky

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Thanks Vicky.

I will find alternatives for now. But yeah will be great when it’s fixed.

Thanks,

Joe

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Hello!
I also experienced the same kind of problems when exporting to .png. Is there any solution available?
Thank you,
Francesca

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This should now be fixed with the latest updates to 3.3.2. So the labels will now no longer be cut off.

The one problem that does still remain, however, is that the number of labels remains the same, so they can end up being overlapped, if you have increased their size. That is a separate issue which we will need to take a look at. Obviously if you edit your .pdf/.svg in a graphics package you can easily remove some of the lables (you’ll first need to ungroup things), but for a .png that can still be a problem.

Vicky

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Thank you Vicky.
In fact, I am using the updated v 3.3.2 (on Windows) - still, I see decimals cut on axes when setting a large font size, in an exported .png. This happens for example for a 20 font size (which might be useful if you need a close-up of a peak shift in a CSP). No problem, I will try a smaller font size or a different exporting format.

Thanks!
Francesca

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Strangely, it looks as though it doesn’t work with the default font. But if you change the font to something else, then it’s oaky…
Vicky