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. Items from the top menu bar (if any) deal with "pages", context menus with plot or object make-up. Do not mix the two types of make-up files, unless you want to run into errors.

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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