Greetings: Can you tell me how to completely get rid of the black background on which structures appear? As you probably know printer ink is not cheap. Thanks - Jakob Schmidt, Dept . Biochem and Cell Biol. SUNY Stony Brook
Hi Jakob,
To change the background color in Chimera use Favorites/Preferences, category Background, and click on the "Background color" button. That will bring up the color chooser, and you can set the color to white for printing.
Tom
On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:36 AM, Thomas Goddard wrote:
Hi Jakob,
To change the background color in Chimera use Favorites/Preferences, category Background, and click on the "Background color" button. That will bring up the color chooser, and you can set the color to white for printing.
I would add that if you are changing the background color, you may also want to set the depth-cue color (the color that objects fade to with distance) to that same color. You can control the depth-cue color via the Effects tab of the Side View widget (Favorites...Side View).
Controlling both of these will be considerably easier / more obvious in the next release, since both will also be under Actions...Color. There will also be equivalent command-line commands ("set bg_color" and "set dc_color").
Eric Pettersen UCSF Computer Graphics Lab pett@cgl.ucsf.edu http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu
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