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From: Dr. Daniel James White PhD (dan_at_chalkie.org.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 05:16:45 CST

Dear All,

Don't forget that the Gimp (like a free adobe photoshop) comes in the
fink X11 for Darwin/OSX distro,
and does everything to images you could want.

Dan

> Graphic Converter (which has been bundled with OS X) works for this
> purpose. I would think anyone using OS X in science should seriously
> consider using fink ("classic" unix files and programs), in which case
> that old chestnut 'xv' is available also.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
> On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 15:43 US/Pacific, John Stone wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Marcela,
>> VMD can't save directly to TIFF files at present, however
>> you can use another program to convert the BMP or RGB format images
>> into a Tiff file if you wish. If you're using Unix (RGB files),
>> a good converter program is ImageMagick. On Windows, I would think
>> almost
>> any program with TIFF support would do fine, since BMP is universally
>> readable by Windows itself. I don't have a specific suggestion for
>> MacOS X, perhaps someone else can give a hint there. In any case, it
>> is (and should be) a relatively easy thing to do.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Stone
>> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:01:30PM -0500, Marcela Madrid wrote:
>>> hi, is
>>> there a way to save a tiff file with VMD, so that I can
>>> then render it on another machine?
>>> thanks, Marcela
>>
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> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu Phone: 217-244-3349
> WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Fax: 217-244-6078
>
>
Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Cell Biology
Department of biological and environmental science
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä
Finland
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