On Fri, 25 Jun 2004, J B Procter wrote:
Does anyone know of a way of generating postscript from chimera via a vector rendering of the structure, rather than simply embedding the rendered image ?
Just to be clear, the answer is no. PostScript's imaging model does not match chimera's very well -- for example, molecular surfaces could be decomposed into single color triangles (PostScript does not support interpolating colors across a triangle), but the result would be for a particular resolution and the data would be significant larger than the image data for that resolution, so there is no advantage in the general case.
What would be even more fun is if one could generate a molscript diagram from a chimera view.
What aspect of the MolScript diagram do you really want? Generating molscript input for a single molecule looks like it would be fairly easy, so you could use chimera as an interactive version of the MolAuto program. A python script that generate MolScript input from the current chimera state would be a welcome contribution. :-) If there a visual aspect of MolScript that you would like chimera to duplicate, please let us know. - Greg