In article <1995Jul13.134532.9944 at reks.uia.ac.be>, przemko at reks.uia.ac.be
(Przemko) says:
>>Hi!
>prettyplot has finally arrived to our machine. Thankx to Peter Rice for
all
>those color options etc.
>But, here is my problem.
>I would like to achieve the following
>-take file in msf format (BTW, why there is no conversion from Clustal
.aln to
>.msf format?. I know I can ask Clustal to give me .msf output but not
all gcg
>programs will recognize it)
>- color the aminoacids (including BACKGROUD - is it possible in the
current
>prettyplot?)
>- generate a .hgl (or any other VECTOR file).
>- import it into PowerPoint and make a slide of that (edit a bit if
necessary)
>>Now, I can get the first and the second point to work. The problem
starts with
>the third point. If my default output is set to postscript, even if I
use
>-plot=filename option in the prettyplot, I still get ps_file NOT a HPGL
file.
>Second problem arises when I get my .hpgl file (because of fiddling with
the
>setplot) and get onto my pc. PowerPoint converts it very nicely BUT it
puts a
>multiple pages onto one. In other words, if my .msf is 1000bases long
then I get
>10 pages overlapped onto one (TOTTALY UNREADABLE). My VERY UNEDUCATED
GUESS is
>that the end-of-page command (or something like that) is missing from
that .hpgl
>output of prettyplot.
>Anyone could help me on that?
>ThanX a lot!
>Przemko
I would like to suggest the latest version (version 3) of BOXSHADE. NOt
only will it read either .msf or CLUSTAL files, but will also produce
output in HPGL (amongst many others). The command line switch /SPLIT
causes individual pages to be split into separate files. The program is
currently available from the EMBL archive (at least the one at EBI). It
has another vector-format output, XFIG (?) I think.
BOXSHADE v 3.0 has a number of improvements over 2.7, like threshold
scores and consensus by similarity. I hope it's useful, but then I wrote
those new bits, so I would, wouldn't I?
cheers,
Michael D. Baron
michael.baron at bbsrc.ac.uk
