You can make an open TextEdit document into plain text with the "Make Plain Text" entry of the Format menu. --Eric On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Thomas Goddard wrote:
Hi Durga,
Your Chimera command script text file should be in plain text format. This is a minor pain in Mac TextEdit. You have to use TextEdit Preferences and under the New Document tab click "plain text". Then make a new document with File / New since the change to plain text format does not effect already open TextEdit windows. When you save the text file it will ask if you want the file to have suffix ".txt" instead of the ".cmd" that Chimera wants. Tell it to use ".cmd" since that way Chimera will automatically recognize it as a command script.
Tom
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Chimera-users] Chimera question with Mac From: Durga Velukumar To: chimera-users Date: 11/26/09 7:25 PM
Hello, I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Georgia and I'm using your system, UCSF Chimera, for my powerpoint presentation. I'm having some problems with trying to create a movie. I have a MacBook Pro, which I just got this recent August, and downloaded the latest Chimera version for the Mac. I'm trying to save the commands in a separate file, like TextEdit, but I don't know what type of file to save it as. I'm hoping to be able to open the file through Chimera to play the movie. I tried saving the commands as "movie.cmd" but TextEdit is not allowing me to save that type of file. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Durga
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