Angel Herraez wrote: > On top of that, the interest of VRML is questionable. The more I > read, the more opinions I find it is an obsolete format. > It might become more important again because of the possibility to integrate interactive 3D Figures directly into a PDF document.
The following publication describes the integration of a molecular structure exported as VRML file from PyMOL into a PDF document: "Grasping molecular structures through publication-integrated 3D models." Kumar P, Ziegler A, Ziegler J, Uchanska-Ziegler B, Ziegler A Trends Biochem Sci. 2008 ;33:408-12. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibs.2008.06.004) Starting with version 7 the Adobe Acrobat Reader includes a basic interactive 3D viewer. It was mainly designed for technical 3D objects, but it can also be very useful for molecular structures. The 3D object is actually integrated in the "Universal 3D format" (U3D). So it would be optimal if Jmol could export U3D directly. But since there is already a rudimentary VRML exporter it might be sufficient to export VRML instead. There is a special 3D-Program available from Adobe that is able to import VRML and generate interactive PDF figures. (In version 9 it is only available within the full "Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended" package.) I tried this successfully with a demo version. Although the whole procedure is still rather complicated it seems to be a very promising way to present 3D information directly within a publication. Since the PDF format is now the standard for distributing publications this might become very popular in the future. (But probably only if the generation would become more easy.) Regards, Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
