Re: MS: viewable spectrum files
Ken Mitchelhill (k.mitchelhill@medicine.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:50:20 +1100
>
>Lisa,
>
>we distribute MS data using a simple but elegant screen capture utility
>costing $20 called SnapzPro
>(http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/Products/SnapzPro.html) from our Mac desktops
>(Sciex instruments). It is a modification on the old "Shift-Apple-3"
>shortcut which writes a pict, gif or jpg image to disk, we usually select
>jpg since that seems to be a more universally accepted format. The file
>can then be emailed to the investigator and be viewed in all sorts of
>ways, things like web browsers, word processing packages, graphics
>packages and so on.
>
>I have attached a copy of a spectrum captured with one key stroke and a
>mouse click for your viewing (not sent to ABRF list).
>
>I'm fairly sure there are equivalent screen capture utilities for all
>types of computers connected to your instruments.
>
>The other solution you might consider (along the lines of Len Packman's
>web notebook concept) is not to send the images at all but put them up on
>a simple web server, password protected for each investigator, and allow
>them to be viewed at leisure via a web browser.
>
>Good luck....Ken
>
>>I have a question for all you computer guru's out there. The MS facility
>>here has several different spectrometers including ones from Perseptive
>>(STR & DE), PE-Sciex, HP, Finnigan, and Ion-Spec. It would be nice if
>>they could send spectrums to investigators electronically, quickly and
>>efficiently. Has anyone worked this out for any of these instruments?
>>
>>As always, thanks.
>>
>>Lisa
>
>
>
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