[phenixbb] Improving picture quality of ED map in PYMOL

Sam Stampfer Samuel.Stampfer at tufts.edu
Tue Sep 1 11:46:19 PDT 2009


Those commands represent the resolution of the image you're generating- you
can do "ray 1600,1200", for example, to get a 1600 X 1200 pixel image.

-Sam

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Pavel Afonine <PAfonine at lbl.gov> wrote:

> Hi Raja,
>
> here is what I usually do to get a paper-quality picture out of PyMol:
>
> once I have model and maps displayed, I issues these commands:
>
> ray 500,500
> png file_name
>
> You need to play with the above numbers to get the picture you like, and
> it will be saved under file name file_name.png.
> Since I use Pymol one a year or so, I can't remember what the above
> "magic" numbers/commands mean.
>
> Pavel.
>
>
> On 9/1/09 11:16 AM, Raja Dey wrote:
> > Dear Friends,
> >                      Sorry, for the of topic question. Does anyone can
> tell how to improve the quality of a picture showing the electron density
> map of dna in a complex using PYMOL. I created the figure, but not happy
> with the quality as it is now. Might be there is a way to improve which I
> don't know. I want the lines in the mesh to be more sharp and fine. Any
> suggested program to prepare a publication quality figure to show the ED map
> would be of great help.
> > Thanking you in advance...
> > Raja
> >
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