Annotations using "fixed angle"

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Thu, 04/12/2012 - 05:58 am

Hi

I want to include a greek letter (micro) in a legend in a 3D plot in Gizmo. I used the annotation tool to write the legend, but I need to change the fixed angle to aline the legend to to the graph. This makes the letters not perfectly alined, is there a way to avoid this problem? I have attached the graph.

all the best,

Ann-Sofi
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It's not perfect, but you can enter a small rotation angle in the Annotation Position tab's Fixed Angle (degrees) field.

(This is not in the Gizmo Annotations panel, but Igor's Modify Annotation dialog.)

Type in a value of about -10 or -15.

It won't be quite the right orientation, as it is positioned in only "flat space", but it'll be close.

The "right" solution will come with Igor 7 which should support Unicode text in the Gizmo labels if all goes well.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.

April 13, 2012 at 11:13 am - Permalink

JimProuty wrote:
It's not perfect, but you can enter a small rotation angle in the Annotation Position tab's Fixed Angle (degrees) field.

(This is not in the Gizmo Annotations panel, but Igor's Modify Annotation dialog.)

Type in a value of about -10 or -15.

It won't be quite the right orientation, as it is positioned in only "flat space", but it'll be close.

The "right" solution will come with Igor 7 which should support Unicode text in the Gizmo labels if all goes well.

--Jim Prouty
Software Engineer, WaveMetrics, Inc.


Hi again

This is what I did, I put in an angle of -5, but the letters look a little bit "jumpy", not aligned to eachother, as you can see in the graph. But as I understand from your reply this is the best I can get.

Thank you for your reply though. Looking forward to version 7!

all the best,

Ann-Sofi

April 20, 2012 at 12:34 am - Permalink