From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu May 07 2009 - 14:24:57 CDT

Hi,
  The BMP format supports many variations, and not all
image viewers support all variations. You can have
VMD save snapshots as Target (.tga), PPM (.ppm) or other
formats by changing the filename extension however, and
that may make things easier for you.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:04:58PM -0700, Tawhid Ezaz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't open the BMP snapshot from vmd with picassa or ImageJ, but I can open it windows picture and fax viewer. I am wondering why this is happening. Does VMD uses a different codec or something? I need to open the bmp file with Image J as I have to do some post processing there.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tawhid
>
>
>

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