Hello I have previously made brief reference to our efforts to develop a tool for Jmol-enhanced figures in IUCr journals, and the project is now well advanced. The idea is to allow authors to create supplementary figures using Jmol applets, at the same time creating a static image of the initial molecular view for publication in the hard-copy journal.
The problem is that the static image is of low resolution. If an applet sized 400x300 pixels is created, which looks fine on a 100 dpi monitor, it creates a pixelated illustration when printed "same size", or a very small illustration if printed at a suitable dpi resolution. A possible workaround is to postprocess the interactive graphics script by scaling the dimenasions up; e.g. # possibly print 3 x screen dimensions for higher resolution my $outwidth = 3 * $width; my $outheight = 3 * $height; print JMOL qq( write image $outwidth $outheight "figure.png"); (where $width and $height are the (known) dimensions of the applet) will create an effective resolution of 300 dpi. This scaling works nicely for the geometric objects (and produces excellent results with the recently introduced antialiasing facility). But lines (e.g. bounding boxes, unit-cell axes) and labels are more problematic, since I don't necessarily know what their dimensions and font sizes might be. Would it be possible for Jmol to emit images scaled to any arbitrary user-requested factor? Alternatively, are there internal variables that can be accessed to allow scaling of font sizes, line widths etc? Thanks Brian _________________________________________________________________________ Brian McMahon tel: +44 1244 342878 Research and Development Officer fax: +44 1244 314888 International Union of Crystallography e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
