In article <337097DC.41C6 at caos.kun.nl>, Jack Leunissen <jackl at caos.kun.nl> writes:
>Collegues,
<SNIP>
>There is an additional advantage of PHYLIP trees in figure format,
>apart from the possibility of previewing them via X windows.
>After conversion of the figure file into HPGL, this file can be read
>into the most common PC drawing programs, like CorelDraw. Although
>this could already be done before by the tree-plotting program, the
>advantage of the additional step is in the fact that the labels now
>are treated as real text by the program, and not just as a bunch of
>lines. This means that now you can easily change the character font
>and character size for all the labels in the trees!
I've found very few programs that can import HPGL, but many can
do CGM, so I wrote a CGM driver for the GCG software. It works with
8.1, but if you've moved to 9.0 and don't have the source code license,
probably you can't get it to build/work there. (Maybe not even with the
source code, don't know, we're not going to 9.0.)
You can pick the driver up at:
ftp://seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu/gcgcgm.tar (or .zip)
As described above, text stays as text, so you can easily modify figures
in graphics programs.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
