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? -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
