Dear Vince, For Chimera (or any other molecular modeling program) to open a PDB file, it should be kept as a PDB file, which is plain text. <http://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimera/docs/UsersGuide/tutorials/framepdbintro.htm...> The font used to display the text is a completely separate issue. It is not a Chimera question. To display any text with constant spacing, you just have to use a fixed-width font such as Courier. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monospaced_font> I hope this helps, Elaine ----- Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D. UCSF Computer Graphics Lab (Chimera team) and Babbitt Lab Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of California, San Francisco On Jun 10, 2016, at 1:36 PM, Vasantha Kumar <vin.vasanth@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Chimera users
I have a trivial question related to pdb coordinates in text format.
For a small molecule I would like to report pdb coordinates (12 column) in an article. Regular .text (to pdf and illustrator ) file fonts are horrible, Is there is way to keep same space between columns and change the fonts size and style that respects pdb format. Therefore I want know is there any additional option in chimera to export coordinates? in a nice way so that if someone copy these coordinates from the article they should be open in chimera with out further editing.
Have a good weekend!!
thanks in advance.. Vince