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From: Mario Valle (mvalle_at_cscs.ch)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 03:30:35 CST

Thanks John!
Now Tachion works. And the simple default change to TGA instead of BMP is sufficient to
solve every problem.
Ciao!
                mario

John Stone wrote:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Ing. Mario Valle
>> Visualization Group |
>> http://www.cscs.ch/~mvalle
>> Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.60
>> v. Cantonale Galleria 2, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82
> 

-- 
Ing. Mario Valle
Visualization Group                              | http://www.cscs.ch/~mvalle
Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS)      | Tel:  +41 (91) 610.82.60
v. Cantonale Galleria 2, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax:  +41 (91) 610.82.82