SciFigs: Make-up

A make-up is used to customize the appearance of plots.

It may be used either for individual graphic objects or pages.

In order to avoid repeating "plots and/or pages", the description hereafter deals with plots. The exact same description also applies for pages;

Building a make-up

Make changes to the plot with the property editor obtained by double-clicking inside the plot to be customized, or by right-clicking anywhere in the plot and selecting Properties in the context menu.

Select Properties in the context menu

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Saving a make-up

Once all changes have been made in the plot, right-click on a blank part of the plot and select Save make-up in the context menu.

Select Save make-up in the context menu

Customize the Make up property filter pop-up window. When a box is checked it has the follwing effects:

Make-up property filter pop-up window

• X axis limits: keep the two end values of the x-axis
• Y axis limits: keep the two end values of the y-axis
• X object position: keep the x position of the plot in the page
• Y object position: keep the y position of the plot in the page
• Layers: keep the object layers
• X axis title: keep the x-axis title
• Y axis title: keep the y-axis title
• Custom property filter: see below

• Custom property filter box

When this box is checked a window opens inside the Make up property filter pop-up window for advanced make-up property customizing.

Make-up property filter pop-up window with the Custom property filter window

As an example, the line underlined in blue is changed from "Strong_Peak Z,Strong_Peak N,Strong_Peak E" into "Vertical,North-South,East-West".

The above make-up applied to a signal window will name tracks as file name Z, file name N and file name E, where file name is the name of the processed file.

Track names obtained with default make-up

The transformed make-up will name tracks Vertical, North-South, and East-Westrespectively.

Make-up property filter pop-up window with the Custom property filter window

Track names obtained with changed make-up

The saving process contines by pressing .

Choose a destination folder in the browser pop-up window.

Browser pop-up window

Type the name of the make-up in the appropriate text box. Do not include the extension, it is added automatically.

End the saving process by pressing .

Applying a make-up

Right-click on a blank part of the plot and select Restore make-up in the context menu.

Select Restore make-up in the context menu

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