Chapter 8. Printing and Saving

Table of Contents

1. Understanding the Print & Save Tab
2. Handling Saving Problems
3. Handling Problems Viewing Saved Drawings

1. Understanding the Print & Save Tab

BayesFold enables you to print and save not only its structure drawings but also all its underlying data. This functionality is available through the "Print & Save" tab of the Format palette:

Print Tab

BayesFold supports two color modes for its structure drawings: color and a greyscale. The default mode is color; in the greyscale mode, any colorings that have been applied to the drawing are recalculated to display the same data in shades of grey. This mode is useful when formatting structure drawings for printing.

The "Print Image" option offers a convenient method for printing the current structure drawing. The "Display" option opens a new window to display one of the types of data listed below, while the "Save As" option saves one of those types of data to a user-specified file.

Important

The "Save As" functionality uses an ActiveX control to save files to your local machine. In order for this functionality to work, the BayesFold site must be one of the "Trusted Sites" on your machine (since Internet Explorer will not allow untrusted sites to save information to your machine) and you must click "Ok" when asked whether to allow the ActiveX control to run. For more information, see Section 2, “Handling Saving Problems”.

Available data:

  • SVG for Illustrator: the SVG markup that defines the structure drawing. This can be imported into any SVG-capable program, like Adobe Illustrator 10.

    SVG for Browser: the SVG markup that defines the structure drawing, sized and centered for viewing in the browser.

    Caution

    Do NOT save your structure drawing using the Adobe SVG Viewer's built-in "View SVG" or "Save SVG As..." menu options. These will not correctly capture any formats that have been applied to the drawing. Be sure to use BayesFold's Display or Save As options instead.

  • XML: the BayesFold XML format that contains all the program data on the alignment, predicted structures, probabilities, etc.

  • Sequences Text: the contents of the sequence data table in tab-delimited text format, suitable for import into spreadsheet programs like Excel.

  • Structures Text: the contents of the structure data table in tab-delimited text format, suitable for import into spreadsheet programs like Excel.