SciFigs: Graphic Sheet Menu

Graphic Sheet Menu

In the Mac OS the Graphic Sheet menu is obtained with a mouse right click. It does not appear at the top of the Graphic Sheet window

In the Linux and Microsoft Windows OS both representations of the Graphic Sheet menu are available

When using the mouse to get the menu, the right click should be done outside any of the objects of the Graph Sheet.

Properties

Graphic Sheet Properties

When clicking on Properties of the Graphic Sheet menu, a pop-up window appears.

File

File menu

• New: clears the current sheet

• Open: open an existing sheet created as a .page file

• Save and Save As are the usual actions

Graph Sheet preferences

• Preferences: to add or remove plugins. To add a plugin its path has to be entered in the lower box.

• Print: usual action

• Export image: the .page file can be transformed into the following formats: PS, PDF, SVG, BMP, JPEG, PNG, PPM, XBM, XPM.

Edit

Edit menu

In order to Edit one object it has first to be selected (See how to select an object).

• Cut, Copy, Paste, and Select All are the usual actions.

• Copy image copies the entire Graphic Sheet.

Numbered objects

• Order: the objects are sequentially numbered. This action is active, including when a new page is open, until it is stopped un-checking Order in the menu.

Insert

Format menu

A Graph, a Palette, an Image, a Legend, or a Text may be inserted into an active Graphic Sheet.

Format

For each object it is possible to:

• Copy a Make-up file into the clipboard

• Paste a Make-up file that has been copied into the clipboard

• Save a Make-up in a .mkup file, to further be applied to other Graphic Sheets of the same type

• Restore a Make-up from a saved .mkup file. This action is used to change the appearance of a Graphic Sheet

• Save layers: save all the layers of the active Graphic Sheet in a Layer file (.layer)

• Add layers: add layers from a Layer (.layer) file to the active Graphic Sheet

• Properties: same as the Properties of the main menu of the Graph Sheet

Help

Help menu

Various helps are available