pstoedit.net. When it comes to producing publication quality graphs, I've found the following combination hard to beat: 1) GraphPad Prism, 2) pstoedit, and 3) xfig. You can print from GraphPad Prism to a postscript file. Use pstoedit to convert it to a vector graphics file that xfig can understand (e.g. pstoedit -f xfig inputpsfile.ps outputfigfile.fig). Run xfig and edit the figure to your liking. Finally, to produce the appropriate graphics file, you can export as a an EPS that will most likely pass the Rapid Inspector digital art reviewing program. Rapid Inspector is a program that many journals are now implementing to certify digital art for publication before the authors upload the graphics files to the journal:
Users download a simple application and drag-and-drop image files into Rapid Inspector. Files are tested locally on the user's computer and results are received in seconds.
Instead of producing an xfig file, you can also produce SVG files that inkscape will open, although my attempt to do this led to inkscape crashing repeatedly with my graphics file. It may be that my file was too big. YMMV.
Posted by johnvu at April 6, 2005 09:58 PM