<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">As far as I can tell, POV-ray images don't have the DPI setting specified in the Chimera interface. Always seems to be the screen DPI. There is a ticket for this problem now:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/trac/chimera/ticket/10683%23comment:1">#10683 (POV-ray not honoring DPI setting) – Chimera</a></div><div><br></div><div>However, non-POV-ray images have the right DPI.</div><div><br></div><div>--Eric</div><div><br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 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; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> Eric Pettersen</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> UCSF Computer Graphics Lab</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "> <a href="http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu">http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu</a></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span></div><div><div>On Apr 19, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Elaine Meng wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Yogendra,<br>In the "File... Save Image" dialog, if you want to enter "dpi" you need to turn on "Use print units". Then you can specify a "Print resolution(dpi)" value, and image width and height in units of length (for example, inches) instead of pixels.<br><br>Please send questions to the chimera-users address only (not the chimera-bugs address).<br>Thanks,<br>Elaine<br>----------<br>Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. <br>UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab<br>Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry<br>University of California, San Francisco<br><br>On Apr 18, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Yogendra wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Sir,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am a new user of Chimera software. I am using this software for academic<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">purposes (i.e. research publications). I am trying to save the image with more<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">then 600 dpi but every time i am ending up with an image of 96 dpi. I am using<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the POV-Ray method for image improvement but everything is going to the drain<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">when taking the final print of the document. Can you please help me ho can i<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">save a high resolution image? I am briefly describing my protocol of image<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">generation:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">1) I am making a density map of particular PDB file.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">2) loading in the Chimera and adjusting the volume by volume viewer option<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">3) Coloring it using described colors<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">4) Using Pov-Ray for increasing effects on plane<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">5) Increasing the pixels to about 5000 in the pixel option<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">6) finally trying to save an image with 600 or 1200 dpi.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">But at the end of this, i am just getting an image of 96 dpi every time. Can you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">please help me out to make an image of higher dpi (600, 1200 or more if<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">possible).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">It will be very much helpful for me if can do it. I am stuck at this point.I am<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">badly waiting for your reply whether i can do it or should i look for some<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">another software.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Regards<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yogendra S Rathore<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Research Scholar<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Chimera-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu">Chimera-users@cgl.ucsf.edu</a><br>http://plato.cgl.ucsf.edu/mailman/listinfo/chimera-users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br></body></html>