Hi Carsten,

This isn't yet possible from within PyMOL, but it will be soon since it
is a recurring request.  In the meantime unforutnately, you will need to
truncate the maps outside of PyMOL in order to generate smaller session
files.

Sorry about that!

Cheers,
Warren

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of 
> Schubert, Carsten [PRDUS]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 11:56 AM
> To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [PyMOL] Saving a carved section of a map.
> 
> Hi 
> 
> I was wondering if it is possible to save a carved out 
> section of a map and the read it back into pymol as a 
> separate map. The background is that I'd like to distribute 
> .psw files with a couple of maps, but they get rather large 
> (>50 MB) since the map data is not compressed in pymol. I am 
> only interested in a small portion of the map centered around 
> a ligand and some residues, so the rest of the map would be 
> unnecessary since it will not be shown anyway. 
> 
> I have tried if mapman could do the trick but apparently not. 
> I could probably restrict the calculation of the map to be 
> only centered around a region of interest, but was wondering 
> if this would be possible in pymol.
> 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
>         Carsten 
> 
> 

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