VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 19 2012 - 11:31:20 CST

Hi,
  The built-in TachyonInternal renderer can render arbitrarily high
resolution images, but you will need to tell VMD to change the display
resolution before rendering, using the command "display resize XXX YYY"
where XXX and YYY are the number of pixels in width and height.
Have you worked through the VMD tutorials yet? They contain guidance on
rendering images using renderers like Tachyon:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Training/Tutorials/

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:56:59AM -0500, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I just subscribed and would like to pose a question. If this has already
> been answered before, please point me to a place where I can find it in
> the list archives or elsewhere on the vmd web site.
>
> What is the best opensource rendering (best = highest resolution) out
> there for vmd? I have had little success with postscript or bitmap so
> far. I am running vmd both on windows 7 and on linux.
>
> Thank you very much for any helpful pointers.
>
> Best regards, Alex.
>
> --
> Dr. Alexander Angerhofer
> Associate Professor of Chemistry
> Department of Chemistry
> The University of Florida
> Box 117200
> Gainesville, FL 32611-7200
> USA
>
> Tel.: (+1) 352 392 9489
> FAX : (+1) 352 392 0872
> lab : (+1) 352 392 2123 

-- 
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/       Fax: 217-244-6078