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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 31 2009 - 11:51:01 CDT

Michael,
  Interesting. The VMD renderer has a special code path it uses when
drawing for Acrobat. Did you make sure to set the Display->Rendermode
to "Acrobat3D" when generating this scene? If not, then please do so
and try again. If you already had it set, then it seems that
Acrobat's OpenGL capture has a few more limitations I hadn't
already written workarounds for, and I'll have to write code to
special-case the cone drawing too. Let me know which mode you were in
when you did the OpenGL capture, and we'll go from there.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 07:24:06AM -0400, Michael K. Gilson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Acrobat 9.0 Pro Extended to generate 3D PDFs from VMD. The
> molecules look okay, but my draw objects do not. It's not just a
> rendering problem: the coordinates are not correct. You can view the
> problem and the file that creates the draw objects here:
> http://gilsonlab.umbi.umd.edu/supp-mat1a.html. (Scroll down to the
> header "3D PDF problem with VMD draw objects".
> I'd appreciate guidance and/or bug-fixes!
>
> Best regards,
> Mike
>
> P.S. Sorry if this query appears twice. My first attempt has been
> pending for a few days, so I thought I'd better try again with out
> attachments. 

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