Robert Hanson wrote: > ps - It turns out there was a GIF encoder hiding in the Jmol code all along, > so I activated that as well. You can now save GIF images, but frankly they > look terrible because (I believe) GIF is limited to 256 colors. So I didn't > add that possibility to the menu.
I don't think that the limitation to 256 colors usually is a real problem. For our JenaLib atlas pages for all PDB entries we use GIF images converted from PNG images automatically created by Jmol, e.g.: http://www.fli-leibniz.de/ImgLibPDB/thumbnail/auto/current/small/2arc.gif http://www.fli-leibniz.de/ImgLibPDB/thumbnail/auto/current/png/2arc.png There is usually no drastic quality difference. It depends of course of the specific rendering and larger images might also be more problematic. If file size matters in my experience the quality of GIF images of PDB structures compared to JPEG images of similar size is often better. Therefore I didn't switch to JPEG images after implementing the automatic image generation with Jmol in the JenaLib. If there is a much higher quality loss with Jmol generated GIF images it might be due to an unfavourable mechanism to map the colors in the image to 256 colors. If this is not the case I would vote to include GIF in the menu and let the user decide to use it or not. Regards, Rolf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
