Guides

Guides for What Happens After the Figure Is Drawn

Getting the file into your manuscript at a resolution that survives printing, and turning a supervisor's comments into a revised figure. Each guide is written against what Vizcept actually exports, not against what a figure tool usually promises.

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Which guide do you need?

These pages cover the part that isn't the tool: what to do once the figure exists.

GuideWhat it answers
Put your figure into Word, PowerPoint or LaTeXWhich download to use where, how to insert an SVG into Word, whether the file has enough pixels for the printed width, and how to get it into LaTeX or Overleaf
Revise a framework figure from supervisor commentsWhat each comment is asking you to change, the two ways to revise, what to check after every round, and what to do when the figure is not the problem
Mediator vs moderator, with diagramsHow a mediator differs from a moderator, how to tell which one your variable is, and where each goes in a conceptual model

The first two are written against what Vizcept actually exports — PNG and SVG, nothing else — and are updated when that changes.

Deciding whether you can use the figure at all?

Before the figure goes anywhere, three questions come up more than any others. Each has its own page:

If your question is about billing instead, cancelling and credit packs covers it.

Longer pieces on making figures

Still need the figure?

Describe what you are studying and check the draft before you download it.

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