FORMAT GRAPHS IN POWERPOINT! Behold the Mighy .EMF file!
GRAPHS FOR PRESENTATIONS - HAVE YOU EVER?
Had a loss of quality when resizing figures in PowerPoint?
Wished you could tweak your legend, but didn’t have time/coding to fix it in your stats software?
Wanted to match a specific template, but Stata didn’t have the font/color?
Found a typo five minutes before you had to speak?
-If you said yes to any of these, then EMF’s are for you!
WHAT IS AN EMF?
One of many file extensions that you can save a graph as (.jpeg, .gif, .png, etc)
The ONLY vector format recognized by Microsoft Office (for now)
Stands for Enhanced MetaFile (but that doesn’t matter).
.PNG – THE CLASSIC
• Looks the same as the Stata output
• Totally static – you can’t change it
• May have some re-sizing issues
• This is essentially a painting of your data
.EMF – THE NEW GUY
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28 23 14 6 0drug = 120 8 2 0 0drug = 0
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40analysis time
drug = 0 drug = 1
Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
• Slightly different from Stata output
• Static in its current state
• May have resizing issue
• Essentially a macaroni drawing of your data (pieces glued together)
.EMF – THE NEW GUY
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28 23 14 6 0drug = 120 8 2 0 0drug = 0
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40analysis time
drug = 0 drug = 1
Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
• Slightly different from Stata output
• Static in its current state
• May have resizing issue
• Essentially a macaroni drawing of your data (pieces glued together)
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28 23 14 6 0drug = 120 8 2 0 0drug = 0
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40analysis time
drug = 0 drug = 1
Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
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28 23 14 6 0drug = 120 8 2 0 0drug = 0
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40analysis time
drug = 0
drug = 1
Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
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28 23 14 6 0drug = 120 8 2 0 0drug = 0
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40analysis time
drug = 0
drug = 1
Kaplan-Meier survival estimates
BEFORE
• Can’t easily adjust the font
• Can’t make colors perfectly match template
• Obviously from Stata
AFTER
• Easy to tweak positioning, font, color, and more
• Can re-group for easy repositioning/resizing
• Won’t lose quality when made poster size
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28 23 14 6 0Drug X20 8 2 0 0Placebo
Number at risk
0 10 20 30 40Months of Follow up
Placebo
Drug X
Kaplan-Meier
WANT MORE?
• Inkscape is a free vector image program
• Think Photoshop for vector graphics
• https://inkscape.org/en/
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