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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2007 - 17:27:18 CST

Mario,
  I've changed code in the 24-bit BMP export routines in Tachyon such
that ImageMagick and GIMP are now happy with them, and they still work in
the various Windows movie generation tools I've tested. I've posted new
test versions of VMD 1.8.6 which include the latest Tachyon here:
  http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/alpha/

This version also includes an updated version of Peter's mol2 plugin
that addresses the bug you reported previously.

Let us know how it works for you.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 06:34:46PM +0100, Mario Valle wrote:
>
> On Windows GIMP refuses to load the BMP images created with Tachion
> rendering from VMD 1.8.5 .
> Also plain ImageMagick "convert" creates only grayscale images from them.
> The problem is that Tachion produces images of type PseudoClass
>
> $ identify plot.dat.bmp
> plot.dat.bmp BMP 504x478 PseudoClass 256c 706kb
>
> To have usable images you have to convert them this way:
> $ convert plot.dat.bmp -type TrueColor plot.dat.png
>
> Well, it is not a big problem, I want just share my workaround. But is
> it something simple to fix?
> Ciao!
> mario
>
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