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From: Dongsheng Zhang (zhdsheng21_at_gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 14:22:17 CDT

John,

Thank you for your reply. My system is 2D, but VDW seems to give me 3D view.
That is the reason I choose "point". To my understanding, VDW is my only
choice at this moment. Is it correct? May I use "point" as drawing method,
but choose other render method? If so, please tell me which one is good to
save (or transform) the output to an eps file.

All the best!

Dongsheng

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 2:14 PM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

>
> Hi,
> The PostScript renderer in VMD is somewhat antique, and it
> hasn't been able to keep pace with the rapid advancement of new
> rendering primitives and shading capabilities provided by OpenGL
> and the various external renderers. The point primitives are
> presently "skipped" by the postscript renderer as it doesn't
> contain PostScript commands to render these primitives at present.
> I would recommend using the VDW spheres as you're doing presently,
> as it's not clear to me when we'll have time to revise the
> PostScript renderer to add support for the point primitives.
>
> Cheers,
> John Stone
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 03:51:35PM -0500, Dongsheng Zhang wrote:
> > Hi VMD-users,
> >
> > I used "point" as the drawing method. When I try to render the screen to
> an
> > eps file by "rendering using PostScript", I only get the black
> background.
> > Is there anything wrong? If I change to another drawing method such as
> VDW,
> > it works fine. I am using current version.
> >
> > All the best!
> >
> > Dongsheng
>
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