Depending on the type of graph, the associated popup menu contains different items that can be used to control various aspects of that graph. Only three menu items are common to all types of graphs, and only these are described on this page. For others, refer to the specific type of graph in the menu to the left of the screen.
Selecting Print invokes the operating system's print dialog, which allows the user to print the graph with any printer connected to the computer or to print to a PDF file, etc. These possibilities depend on the configuration and software of the particular computer.
Note: Printing does not work for the Linux version of the Sun Java Runtime Environment (and maybe related versions) up to update 7 of Java Standard Edition 6.0 (JRE 6 Update 7), because of a bug in the virtual machine software. The bug has been fixed in update 10 (JRE 6 Update 10). Users of the older versions of Java that are affected by the bug should consider to upgrade to JRE 6 Update 10 (the update is available for free). For Ununtu users, the update to Ubuntu version 8.10 automatically includes the update of Java to JRE 6 Update 10. Alternatively, users of older Java versions can export the graphs to an SVG file (see below) and print them from a graphics program or web browser that can read SVG files.
Invoking Export Graph to File brings up a dialog box for saving the active graph as a graphics file.
There are the following file formats:
Use one of the vector graphics formats for editing with graphics software. This will provide the greatest flexibility for changing colors, line widths and other attributes of the graph. Most graphs are meant to be edited before publication. Therefore, different types of items in the graphs are colored differently, so that all corresponding items can be easily selected together for changing their properties or for deleting them.
The vector graphics formats saved by MorphoJ can be opened and modified by many commercial programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Canvas or CorelDraw, and a program available for free is Inkscape. Many web browsers (at least the newer versions) also open some of the vector graphics files for viewing.
The graphs produced by various analyses in MorphoJ are organized as tabbed panels in the Graphics window. The active panel can be removed by selecting Close Panel from the panel's popup menu.
If the graph is part of a group of panels that belong to the output from an analysis, a dialog box will appear to ask the user whether all the panels should be removed.
If a graph has been closed, it can be produced again by going to the Project Tree and invoking the Display Graphs entry from the popup menu of the corresponding analysis or dataset.