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FIGTREE(1) User Commands FIGTREE(1)

NAME

figtree - graphical phylogenetic tree viewer

DESCRIPTION

Figtree is a (phylogenetic) tree figure drawing tool. It is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and as a program for producing publication-ready figures. In particular it is designed to display summarized and annotated trees produced by BEAST.

AUTHOR

Andrew Rambaut
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
University of Edinburgh
a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk
http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Uses the Java Evolutionary Biology Library (JEBL)
http://jebl.sourceforge.net/
Thanks to Alexei Drummond, Joseph Heled, Philippe Lemey,
Tulio de Oliveira, Beth Shapiro & Marc Suchard
Usage: figtree [-graphic <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|GIF>] [-width <i>] [-height <i>] [-help] [<tree-file-name>] [<graphic-file-name>]
-graphic produce a graphic with the given format
-width the width of the graphic in pixels
-height the height of the graphic in pixels
-help option to print this message
Example: figtree test.tree Example: figtree -graphic PDF test.tree test.pdf Example: figtree -graphic GIF -width 320 -height 320 test.tree test.gif
Unrecognized argument: --version
FigTree v1.3.1, 2006-2009
Tree Figure Drawing Tool
Andrew Rambaut
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
University of Edinburgh
a.rambaut@ed.ac.uk
http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/
Uses the Java Evolutionary Biology Library (JEBL)
http://jebl.sourceforge.net/
Thanks to Alexei Drummond, Joseph Heled, Philippe Lemey,
Tulio de Oliveira, Beth Shapiro & Marc Suchard
Usage: figtree [-graphic <PDF|SVG|SWF|PS|EMF|GIF>] [-width <i>] [-height <i>] [-help] [<tree-file-name>] [<graphic-file-name>]
-graphic produce a graphic with the given format
-width the width of the graphic in pixels
-height the height of the graphic in pixels
-help option to print this message
Example: figtree test.tree Example: figtree -graphic PDF test.tree test.pdf Example: figtree -graphic GIF -width 320 -height 320 test.tree test.gif

SEE ALSO

The full documentation for figtree is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and figtree programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info figtree
should give you access to the complete manual.
February 2011 figtree