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Grouped graphs that combine bar graphs with also plotting each point as a symbol. </span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_mainbody"> </span></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading"> </span></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Draw lines and brackets with centered text (with an easy way to write asterisks)</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><img alt="clip0225" style="margin:0;width:12.3125rem;height:13.8750rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0225.png"/><span class="f_ImageCaption">   <img alt="clip0229" style="margin:0;width:13.1250rem;height:8.0000rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0229.png"/></span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_mainbody"> </span></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Scatter plots with - or without - "smiles"</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_mainbody">Scatter graphs plot every value, moving points left or right to avoid overlap. Prism 7 sometimes ended up arranging the points in a way that created "smiles" as shown in the graph on the left below.  Prism 8 (right graph below) is much smarter about this, so the default graphs look better, and do a much better job showing the distribution of the data.</span></p> <div style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0; padding: 0 0 0 0; margin: 0.6250rem 0 0.6250rem 0.3125rem;"><table style="border:none; border-spacing:0;"> <tr> <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20.1250rem; padding:0; border:none"><p class="p_Normal" style="line-height: 1.0; white-space: nowrap;"><img alt="clip0147" style="margin:0;width:18.6250rem;height:16.0000rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0147.png"/></p> </td> <td style="vertical-align:top; width:19.6875rem; padding:0; border:none"><p class="p_Normal"><img alt="clip0148" style="margin:0;width:18.6250rem;height:16.0000rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0148.png"/></p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_mainbody">However, we've listened to your feedback, and in Prism 8.2 we introduced the ability to select from three different scatter plot styles:</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><img alt="Scatterplot Appearance Options" style="margin:0;width:43.3125rem;height:9.8750rem;border:none" src="./images/hmfile_hash_224ef386.png"/></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_mainbody">The three graphs below show the same data, plotted using each of the three options above:</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody"><img alt="Standard 2" style="margin:0;width:14.7500rem;height:22.0625rem;border:none" src="./images/hmfile_hash_c5a29089.png"/><img alt="Classic 2" style="margin:0;width:14.8125rem;height:22.0625rem;border:none" src="./images/hmfile_hash_250be218.png"/><img alt="Expanded 2" style="margin:0;width:14.8750rem;height:22.1875rem;border:none" src="./images/hmfile_hash_a79b3df9.png"/></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Improved importing or pasting of images </span></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-weight: bold;">Crop</span><span class="f_mainbody"> an image that has been imported or pasted onto a graph or layout.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-weight: bold;">Resize</span><span class="f_mainbody"> an imported image without accidentally distorting it. Check an option to allow distortion if you really want to change the aspect ratio.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-weight: bold;">Import pdf and eps</span><span class="f_mainbody"> images onto a graph or layout (new for Prism Windows; Prism Mac could already do this).. </span></p><p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading"> </span></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Adjust color of any block of values</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Color code spaghetti graphs. Select a subcolumn of data, right click and choose a different color for those points or lines.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Color code before-after graphs. Select range of rows in a column table, or subcolumns in a Grouped table, right click and choose a different color for those before-after points and lines. Prism 7 could do this in some cases, and Prism 8 extends this to all graphs. </span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="margin: 0.6250rem 0 0.6250rem 1.1250rem;"><img alt="clip0172" style="margin:0;width:10.1250rem;height:13.9375rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0172.png"/></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Axis numbering</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Powers-of-ten numbering on axis no longer adds silly leading zeroes. The label for when X or Y equals 5 is now 10</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-size: 0.67rem; vertical-align: super;">5</span><span class="f_mainbody"> not 10</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-size: 0.67rem; vertical-align: super;">05</span><span class="f_mainbody">. </span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">In preferences, choose an ordinary minus sign or a longer en-dash to show negative numbers on axis numbering.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody"><span class="f_ImageCaption">         <img alt="clip0232" style="margin:0;width:9.9375rem;height:3.9375rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0232.png"/>     <img alt="clip0233" style="margin:0;width:9.7500rem;height:3.3125rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0233.png"/></span></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">For axis numbering, the decimal point can be </span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-style: italic;">middot</span><span class="f_mainbody">, also known as </span><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-style: italic;">interpunkt. </span><span class="f_mainbody"> The decimal point is aligned with the middle of the digits, not their bottom. Some journals request this.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody"><span style="width:2.6875rem;display:inline-block"> </span><img alt="clip0157" style="margin:0;width:10.5000rem;height:3.3750rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0157.png"/></p> <p class="p_bodyheading" style="page-break-after: avoid;"><span class="f_bodyheading">Other improvements</span></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Better default graphs, with more choices made automatically.</span></p><p class="p_Normal" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: -0.3750rem; margin: 0 0 0 1.5000rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span>New command to reverse the order of data sets in the legend.</p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">You can now add up to 100 additional ticks, grid lines and labels to an axis (Prism 7 allowed only 30). </span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">New choice on XY graphs to include a line of identity (used automatically for QQ plots and</span><span class="f_mainbody" style="background-color: #ffffff;"> ROC curves)</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Choose fill patterns on parts-of-whole graphs.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Change which data set is plotted in a parts-of-whole graph.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin-left: 0.3125rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">Choose line spacing for text objects.</span></p><p class="p_mainbody" style="margin: 0.6250rem 0 0.6250rem 1.9375rem;"><img alt="clip0175" style="margin:0;width:10.8750rem;height:12.1250rem;border:none" src="./images/clip0175.png"/></p> <p class="p_mainbody" style="text-indent: 0; padding-left: 0.8125rem; margin: 0.6250rem 0 0.6250rem 1.1250rem;"><span class="f_mainbody" style="font-family: Arial,'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans';display:inline-block;width:0.8125rem;margin-left:-0.8125rem">•</span><span class="f_mainbody">New color schemes, including a "Colorblind Safe" color scheme, with colors designed to be distinguishable by individuals with a variety of different color vision deficiencies. 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