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From: Emmanuel Levy (emmanuel.levy_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 14:28:30 CDT

Dear Axel,

Thanks for your answer - VMD does it to some extent indeed, but there is still
quite a lot of white space around the molecule.

The question is then how is the amount of white space calculated? If
it does not depend on the protein, then a scaling factor would be OK.
However if it does (depend on the protein), that means a particular
scaling factor might not be suited for all proteins.

Any other suggestion would be very welcome!

Best wishes,

Emmanuel

On 10/03/2008, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_cmm.chem.upenn.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Emmanuel Levy wrote:
>
> EL> Hello,
> EL>
> EL> I was wondering if there is simple function that I could call to zoom
> EL> on a protein so that it automatically fits the display window.
>
> i was under the impression that VMD already does this...
>
> if you want to "zoom in" a little closer by default, you could
> play with the "display height" command or use the 'scale' command
> after loading a molecule.
>
> cheers,
> axel.
>
> EL> So it is a sort of "crop" except that I would like to keep the window
> EL> size constant.
>
>
>
> EL>
> EL> Many thanks for any hint you could give me!
> EL>
> EL> Best wishes,
> EL>
> EL> Emmanuel
> EL>
>
>
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