I start with the simplest figure I have – a simple black and white line drawing with a couple of text labels. Right, I think, Matlab will allow me to export a file in.

Tracked down the CD, reinstalled it (compact version). I used to have it on my machine, but uninstalled it, because I never used it and I got fed up when graphics files defaulted to opening in it, which took ages. Someone will help walk me through how to get good quality figures.Ĭadmus has a list of programs and formats that are supported. The proofs have come from Developmental Science, but they tell me the figures are too low resolution, even though I'd selected a 'no compression' option when saving them.Ĭoincidentally, I have another article that is under consideration by Journal of Neuroscience, who also mention their stringent requirements for figure quality, and point me to a website, Cadmus, that will explain what is required and how to do it. Graphics in Matlab is a bit of a nightmare and takes some time to learn, but once learned, you can generally create figures that are more complex than those produced by the other applications that I know. I was pretty proud of generating the figures in Matlab. The paper has an unusually large number of figures, eight, some in colour. Well, that should be easy to fix - I'd do it first thing. Virtually no errors to be corrected, but what was this list of queries from the publisher? Ah, the figures. Well, yesterday I had the excitement of getting proofs for an 'in press' article. This is really just a boring moan blogging as therapy. Or: How to kill a few hours trying to get publication quality figures out of Matlab

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