Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Classen
Denis, just type --> png 3000,3000 yourimage.png ...and there you've got it a 3000x3000 dpi image. It's all in the manual On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Denis Shcherbakov wrote: Are we talking Windows here? What would be a good way to enhance this resolution within linux? How doe

Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Denis Shcherbakov
Thank you :) On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Scott Classen wrote: Denis, just type --> png 3000,3000 yourimage.png ...and there you've got it a 3000x3000 dpi image. It's all in the manual

Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Ezequiel Panepucci
when I said "big" I meant using the pymol command "ray" with arguments specifying the width and heigth: ray 3000,3000 this works on all platforms/OSes zac > Are we talking Windows here? What would be a good way to enhance this > resolution within linux? How does one make a "big" png? Is

Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Denis Shcherbakov
Are we talking Windows here? What would be a good way to enhance this resolution within linux? How does one make a "big" png? Is it a command-line option, or you just make the window the size of the screen? Thanks Denis On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Ezequiel Panepucci wrote: Fred, Make sure you creat

Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Scott Classen
Fred, Also check the settings in Acrobat distiller. The default settings are for "screen" which means all images are downsampled to 72dpi. If you choose the "print" setting in distiller then they will be downsampled to 300dpi. You can customize these setting so there is no downsampling too if

Re: [PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Ezequiel Panepucci
Fred, Make sure you create images which are "big" enough for the size of the print you want to make, e.g. images 3000x3000 print really well on an area of about 5in x 5in (600 dpi printing resolution). Also, you should use some application in which you can properly resize the image to print the a

[PyMOL] Loss of resolution when printing or converting to PDF

2003-03-07 Thread Fred Berkovitch
Hello all, I have made some really nice .png images with pymol, but when I print them out they lose quite a bit of resolution. Likewise, when I convert them to PDF with Acrobat, the resulting .pdf file looks much worse (on my LCD screen) than the original .png. Is there a way around this pro