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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 08 2004 - 17:41:29 CDT

Hi Ioana,
  If you want high resolution, the best way to go would be to use one
of the external ray tracing packages such as Tachyon or POV-Ray.
Depending on what representations you're using, you might actually
want to try one of the new pre-release versions of VMD 1.8.3 as
we have made tremendous improvements in the quality of ray traced
scenes that contain MSMS surfaces, NewRibbons, and a few of the
other representations that use per-vertex coloring.
Most external renderers provide a means for either overriding the
default resolution, or performing high-quality antialiasing which
also yields good results in many cases. For Tachyon and POV-Ray,
you can edit the scene files or command line options to greatly
increase the resolution of the scene.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
 
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 12:55:34PM -0700, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> Hi vmd users,
>
> I need to be able to generate a high resolution "ps" file of a structure
> that I visualize with VMD. I've tried to take a "snapshot" but the
> resolution is not good enough and I do not know how to set it higher.
>
> Any ideas that would help me would be appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Ioana 

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