Robert Hanson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Rolf Huehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 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. >> > > There's probably some simple algorithm that I don't know about that makes > this possible. Until I find it, though, I'd rather leave the GIF option off > the menu (but it is available with the WRITE IMAGE command). It really looks > bad right now. > I am using the open source package "ImageMagick" for the conversion: http://www.imagemagick.org
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