William Stein wrote:
> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Nikos Apostolakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  is it possible to export the plots created by plot3d and
>>  parametric_plot3d to (say) postcript or png or whatever?
>>
> 
> The easy options I know of right now:
> 
> (1) Take a screen shot.
> 
> (2) Use the option viewer='tachyon' to generate a
> png instead of an interactive dynamic 3d plot.  Then just save
> the png to a file.
> 
> Someday there should be a 3rd option to directly export
> what jmol produces, but I don't know how to do it.
> I personally always do (1), since taking screen shots in
> OS X is so incredibly easy.   I think it is also easy
> in Linux with say GIMP.


Here are two solutions for getting images from JMOL.  One (easy) 
solution is using the JMOL application (i.e., from the sage command 
line); the other is using the applet and requires a bit more work.  We 
could probably make the applet version a link under the image in the 
notebook.

http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/File_formats#Images

Jason


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