Export vector image to pdf and/or svg in a format that can be read by Adobe Illustrator

[kdahlquist]

We want the ability to export the graph image to a file in three formats: jpg, pdf, html. For the html version, it would be something similar to the way GenMAPP does it.

[kdahlquist]

We don't need html export until we actual have features that need html display.

Not an easy way to screenshot just the graph to jpg.

CAN use a print function to print just the graph (whatever is in the bounding box) or print to paper.

Going to create a new issue for printing to enable the last option. #111

[kdahlquist]

As per the reviewer comment on #271 we will

• explore exporting the GRNsight graph to svg (which it is natively anyway)
• to cytoscape format (already have a converter that goes the other direction)
• print to pdf
• and if there are libraries for converting svg to other graphics formats

[kdahlquist]

Reviewer 1 comment (#278):

"As it does not accept a standard input file type, the output of any other network analysis package requires conversion in to the matrix format required here. Similarly, the tool provides no export function (the option in the File menu remained stubbornly greyed out) and so I can’t take a network from GRNsight and utilise it elsewhere. I also can’t use GRNsight to convert the GRNmap format to something I might like to use elsewhere.

The authors refer to future features coming in version 2 (lines 323-329). I encourage them to consider implementing at least one standard filetype for displaying graph data within their tool. Be it sif, graphml or even gml, it would significantly increase the utility of the tool as it currently exists."

We need to look into import/export of adjacency matrix in sif, graphml, or gml format.