There's a bug I've never quite figured out with exporting transparent PNG on Mac. When we export a PNG, we take the OpenGL "frame buffer" and starting around OS 10.6, suddenly we'd get those weird artifacts.
If you don't mind having non-transparent backgrounds, I can make a Mac build of 1.1.x that will also re-scale the window to 2x resolution when exporting. I did this last year for a holiday card project and it worked well, albeit with a slightly strange "jump" as the window grows and shrinks. -Geoff --- Prof. Geoffrey Hutchison Department of Chemistry University of Pittsburgh tel: (412) 648-0492 email: geo...@pitt.edu web: http://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/ > On Dec 9, 2014, at 12:35 PM, Philip jakobsen <philipjakobs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > 2 things: I’m trying to export a scene in Avogadro as a png, but end up with > the following result: > > <etoh2.png> > > Which obviously isn’t quite what I wanted. Exporting as bmp and then > exporting that as png works, but that’s a workaround and the quality is not > as good as I’d like. I’m using the latest Avogadro (version 1.1.1 git > revision c1fcc5b) and OS X 10.10.1. > > Second thing: is it possible to control the size of the exported image? This > is for an academic paper and I’d like all graphics to be quite large (around > 2000 pixels high). Is this possible without using POV-ray? I’d like to avoid > that due to the light looking rather unatural and “staged”. Ideally all light > is equally spread across the scene. > > Exporting as vectorgraphics crashes Avogadro, no matter what format (eps, pdf > or svg). Attached is the crashlog. > > <avogadro_crash.log> > > Thanks in advance, > > Philip------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk_______________________________________________ > Avogadro-Discuss mailing list > Avogadro-Discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Avogadro-Discuss mailing list Avogadro-Discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/avogadro-discuss
