- Open pdf in Adobe Reader.
- Zoom in on the figure
- Choose
Tools
Select and Zoom
- Open Paint
- Paste Picture
- Save as authorYYYYabc_figX.jpg
- Open Get Data
File
open
open figure
- select button with two arrows (fourth from left)
- follow instructions to select x min, x max, y min and y max. If the x-axis has a categorical variable, it does not matter what values you use for x min and x max.
- make sure to set the correct values for the max and min of each axis, and indicate if the axis is log-scaled
- select the target button (seven from left)
- click over center of desired data points and error bars
- copy data to google spreadsheet (see Section 3
- calculate SE as the distance between the error bar upper bound and the mean (absolute value of difference between the two points)
David
2011-10-07