<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">For (1) there really isn't any output option, other than a screen grab.<div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Eric Pettersen</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:01 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Bala,<br>For (2): there is no way to tell Chimera to save the image for only <br>part of what is shown. Instead you need to adjust the view so that <br>the window contains the same thing as you want in the image. Then, <br>with File... Save Image you can specify as many or as few pixels as <br>desired (the image can be at higher, lower, or same resolution as the <br>Chimera window).<br><br>If you want to specify certain pixel dimensions of the Chimera window, <br>use the "windowsize" command (command "help windowsize" will show its <br>manual page).<br><br>I know it is common to have one figure that is zoomed out and another <br>that is a closeup in the same rotational orientation. You can save <br>positions with the "savepos" command and restore them with the "reset" <br>command. If you prefer not to use the mouse to zoom (scale) or <br>translate when creating these positions because it is easy to <br>accidentally change the rotation, you can use the "scale" and "move" <br>commands instead.<br><br>Some of the image tutorials include saving and restoring positions. <br>These are for version 1.4 (current daily build):<br><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/frameimages.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/frameimages.html</a> <br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><<a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/convergent.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/convergent.html</a> <br><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>I hope this helps,<br>Elaine<br>-----<br>Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <a href="mailto:meng@cgl.ucsf.edu">meng@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab and Babbitt Lab<br>Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br>University of California, San Francisco<br> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/meng/index.html</a><br><br>On Apr 8, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Bala subramanian wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Friends,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Kindly help me with the following queries.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1) How to output the 2drms created for a md. trajectory using MD <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">movie tool.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2) Is there any way to select a square box of a particular length <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">around the molecule and save the image for publication with the <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">desired resolution. I have seen in the chimera archieve that window <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">size can be adjusted. I am not sure if this is the right way to get <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">my job done.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bala<br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>