Thanks to all who responded. Multiple suggestions, many of which I had already tried, but the best solution came from Ronald Shin at UAB (and repeated this morning from Weiguo Hu at UMass): use Adobe Illustrator
-export as pdf using the export command in topspin
-open the pdf in Illustrator
-ungroup the objects in the pdf
-select the spectral line and increase the stroke thickness (you can also select the scale and increase the font size of the ppm labels)
At this point you can go a couple different routes, but I then open the pdf in Acrobat and copy it as a picture. Paste it into Power Point and add any labels or annotations. Select all, right click, and export as tif (or any other file type). The main drawback of using Power Point (compared to, say, Photoshop) is that by default it exports pictures at only 96 dpi, but that can be easily altered with a registry edit (
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;827745).
While I appreciate many would probably just use the Topspin Plot Editor, I prefer the simplicity and speed of the export command and then working up the picture offline from the instrument.
David Richardson, Ph.D.
NMR Instrumentation Specialist
University of Central Florida
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Hi all,
Anyone know how to increase the width of the spectral line generated by the export command in topspin 2.1? I have increased it for both the display on the screen and printing a hard copy, but those settings have no effect on exporting as a picture file within topspin. I would like to avoid having to print a hard copy and then using a scanner to get a digital file with a thick spectral line.
Received on Tue Sep 04 2012 - 03:45:32 MST