William Stein wrote:
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Jason Grout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>  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
>>
> 
> I think we certainly need to implement the second method.  It's been
> requested a _lot_.  Could you make a trac ticket for this?

This is now tracked at:

http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/3106

Jason


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