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SPANA: Printing Diagrams & Making Figures for Reports

Files with extension plt contain a diagram in a device-independent plot-file format. Plot files may be displayed and printed and they may be converted to other file formats with the program SPANA.

Printing diagrams: The quickest and easiest way is the “Menu / Print” in a diagram window. This prints the diagram with standard margins and size in order to fit the page. A Windows-printer must be installed in order to use this method.

Convert to PDF: diagrams may be distributed as pdf-files to colleagues that do not have “Chemical Equilibrium Diagrams” installed. Pdf-files may be viewed and printed using software freely available in the Internet.

Making it pretty: To create a figure for a report you might wish to make some changes in the diagram

Insert a diagram in a publication (for example in a MS-Word document):