Yunbo, PyMOL wasn't unicode or utf8 compliant -- try saving the file in a directory path that only contains plain ordinary ASCII characters. Alternatively, the latest beta version might work for you since it runs in utf8 by default.
Cheers, Warren -- Warren L. DeLano, Ph.D. Principal Scientist . DeLano Scientific LLC . 400 Oyster Point Blvd., Suite 213 . South San Francisco, CA 94080 . Biz:(650)-872-0942 Tech:(650)-872-0834 . Fax:(650)-872-0273 Cell:(650)-346-1154 . mailto:war...@delsci.com > -----Original Message----- > From: pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:pymol-users-ad...@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of > yunbo.song > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:48 AM > To: pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [PyMOL] Error report when I saved image > > Hi, all, > > I got the Error feed back when I saved image using Pymol. My > Operations system: Windows2000. > What's wrong here? thanks in advance!! error report is in > the following. > > yunbo > Apr23 > > Error:1 > UnicodeEncodeError exception in Tk callbacke > Function:<bound method Normal.file_savepng of > <pmg_tk.skins.normal.Normal instance at 0x03165738>> > (type:<'instancementhod">) Args:() Traceback (innermost last): > File"nicodeEncodeError Exception in Tk callback > Function: <bound method Normal.file_savepng of > <pmg_tk.skins.normal.Normal ins ance at 0x03165738>> (type: > <type 'instancemethod'>) > Args: () > raceback (innermost last): > File "D:\Program Files\DeLano > Scientific\PyMOL/modules\Pmw\Pmw_1_2\lib\PmwBase.py", line > 1747, in __call__ > return apply(self.func, args) > File "D:\Program Files\DeLano > Scientific\PyMOL/modules\pmg_tk\skins\normal\__init__.py", > line 581, in file_savepng > self.cmd.png(sfile) > File "D:\Program Files\DeLano > Scientific\PyMOL/modules\pymol\exporting.py", line 97, in png > r = cmd._do("cmd._png('"+str(filename)+"')") > nicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in > position 34-35: ordinal not in range(128) >