FigTree unable to print a super tree into separated-page pdf file?

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Miao Sun

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Mar 1, 2014, 9:45:48 PM3/1/14

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Now days, RaxML is widely used for building super trees, and FigTree is good companion and very popular software for editing and formatting trees generated by RaxML. However Everybody knows that it's impossible to check a super-tree in one single page or staring at the monitor whole day long, so we need to print them out check it branch by branch or people by people, so far as I known, current version of FigTree unable to print the tree into separated-page pdf file. Would this possible? or anybody is in this situation or has such requirement?

Thanks!

Miao

Andrew Rambaut

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Mar 2, 2014, 5:13:16 AM3/2/14

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The trick is to change the shape of the window so it is vertically long and narrow, reduce the taxon label font size down and then Export to PDF. This will produce a PDF with this shape that can then be printed over multiple pages using Acrobat software or other PDF programs.

Andrew

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