User Interface
- Intuitive and user friendly
- Helpful diagnostic messages
- Notepad to store details of each figure
- Fix spatial relationships of parts of figures
- Powerful, fast, on-screen editing
- Mouse or keyboard shortcuts
- Create templates for routine figure styles
- True WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)
- Resize completed figures
- Network versions
- Help facility
- Global editing system
- Multiple graphs per page
- QuickFig module for semi-automatic figure creation: good for beginners and for routine figures
- Zoom facility
- Free disk of sample figures available
- Select groups of objects for repositioning or deleting
- Run multiple instances of Fig.P within a single Windows session
- Display data, figure and notes windows simultaneously
- Action Bar gives one-click access to key program functions
- Render any element invisible without losing its other functions
- Choose text, line, color and box types with one click from user-modifiable palettes
- Snap-to-grid facility
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Graph Types
- Line graphs
- Staircase plots
- Scatter plots 1D or 2D with optional clean-scattering of superimposed points
- Bar graphs, single, stacked or over-lapping; adjustable width, displacement and infill
- Needlegrams
- Areagrams
- Data pair connectors
- Histograms
- Text charts with text, symbols, arrows, boxes, circles, ellipses and lines anywhere
- Plot a function with user-defined parameter values
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Figure Style
- Complete color control over all elements
- Background color can be ramped, double- ramped or two-tone
- Multiple line types (solid, dashed etc)
- Full control over line thickness
- Lines touching symbols or not
- Multiple fill-patterns for bar graphs and histograms
- Optional figure frame
- Move or resize figure at any time
- Error bars (SEM, SD(n-1), SDn, range, confidence limits) automatically calculated or imported; any style (up, down, symmetrical, transverse, or individualized direction), fully adjustable terminal cross line
- Arrows of many styles in any position
- Boxes of numerous shapes in any size or position, filled or not
- Draw circles and ellipses
- Draw curved arrows and lines
- Line plot and regression
- Staircase plot
- Smooth natural spline plot
- Smooth blended plot combining spline and regression
- Smooth linear or polynomial least squares regression curve fit (with statistics off-plot) in any of linear/polynomial, logarithmic, exponential or power-fitting mode
- Equation plotter with Marquardt non-linear curve fitting; powerful initial parameter autoguess; easy-to-use equation editor; up to 60 parameters per equation with complex nested brackets; numerous functions built-in; numerous equations supplied including four sigmoid models (Exponential, Statistical, Logistic and Asymmetric); choice of unweighted, partially weighted, fully weighted or individually weighted data; fitted values displayed with standard errors, chi-squared, covariance matrix, correlation matrix, curvature matrix, goodness-of-fit index; plot and table of residuals; automatic creation of theoretical-curve datasets and best fit curve for a dataset; calculation of unknowns for assays; confidence bands or intervals; fix parameters within specified limits
- Fit multivariable equations
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Data Input
- From keyboard
- Import ASCII files in many formats
- Import from spreadsheets including .XLS, .WK1, .WK3, .WQ1, .WKS, .WRK, .WKQ and .WB1 formats
- Import from spreadsheets via clipboard
- Direct data acquisition from instruments via RS232 port
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Axes
- Scales include linear, log-log, semilog, natural log
- Automatic or user defined range
- Complete user control over position
- Completely flexible tick-mark facility
- Multiple y-axes and x-axes per figure
- Multiple plots per page
- Insets or superpositions
- Completely flexible axis-break facility
- Frames with or without tickmarks
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Symbols
- 20 symbol-types supplied
- Open or filled
- Complete size control
- Option of no symbols or different ones on one line
- Use characters or character strings as symbols
- Numerous symbols available with Symbol or Wingding fonts
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Data Handling
- Worksheet editor with up to 7 million cells
- Numerous transformations including: add, subtract, multiply, divide, raise to a power, reciprocal, change sign, log, user-defined function, logit, probit, normit, probability, t-value, F-value, Z-value, chi-squared, Fourier smoothing, Savitzky-Golay smoothing, Fourier power spectrum, frequency analysis, cumulative totals, successive differences, interchange, sort, cosort, rank, index, tally, regroup replicates, reduce replicates to means & errors;
- Fast Fourier Transforms and Inverse FFT
- Data statistics automatically calculated: mean, range, SEM, SDn, SD(n-1), confidence limits, skewness, kurtosis
- Missing data handling
- Print data
- Statistical tests of comparison: t-tests, F-test and chi-squared tests and correlation
- Area-under-curve calculator
- No limit to number of datasets
- Drag and drop or copy and drop blocks of data on worksheet
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Labels
- Vertical (up or down) or horizontal (fully rotatable with TrueType or ATM fonts)
- Use symbols as characters
- Complete size flexibility
- European, Greek and scientific characters
- Complete control of position
- Super- and sub-scripts (can have both at one character)
- Automatic or user-controlled tick-mark labeling
- TrueType and Adobe Type Manager font support including mixed fonts, bold, italic, underlined etc
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Output
- Batch mode automates figure creation from a set of ASCII data files
- Queue figures to print automatically
- Export to wordprocessors, presentation programs and DTP packages
- Supports all Windows output drivers to printers; laserprinters; plotters; slidemakers, file-output etc.
- Copy figures to file or clipboard as bitmaps (BMP) or Windows metafiles (WMF) for export to wordprocessors, presentation programs, bureaus etc.
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