If you can convert your maps to XPLOR format, then you may want to consider using PyMOL, which can generate ray-traced renditions of ribbons, surface, and electron density much more conveniently than Molscript/Bobscript/Raster3d. http://pymol.sourceforge.net Furthermore, in command-line mode you can render figures with arbitrarily large resolutions. For example, the command: pymol -c < script.pml where "script.pml" ends with something like viewport 2000,1500 # expand the screen in memory ray # ray-trace png image.png # save png-format image file (2000x1500) # end of script These PNG files can be converted to whatever format you need using ImageMagick. - Warren -----Original Message----- From: Yong TANG Sent: Mon 6/18/2001 4:11 AM To: ccp4bb@dl.ac.uk Cc: ccp4bb-owner@dl.ac.uk Subject: [ccp4bb]: how to prepare images for submission? *** For details on how to be removed from this list visit the *** *** CCP4 home page http://www.ccp4.ac.uk *** Dear all, I'm preparing some color images for structure paper submission. However, there is still not satisfactory solution for producing images of required resolution. Any image croped by snapshot on the SGI work stations only has a resolution of 72 dpi, making it unrealistic for futher processing or direct submission. Trial-and-error photography of these images displayed on the screen using the best film-loaded or digital camaras suffers a lot from the over-saturation of local white regions and the white margines of imgview or imgworks, and terrible distorion of the image by the screen. Could any person give me some tips about this issue? Thanks in advance. I'm a new comer here and not sure whether this topic has been covered before. Sincerely Yours, Yong TANG A doctorate student at: Division of Structural Biology National Lab of Biomacromolecules Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 15# Datun Road, Chaoyang District Beijing 100101, P.R. China Tel: 0086-10-64888511 E-mail: tang@moon.ibp.ac.cn
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