[xcrysden] quality of the images

[Tone Kokalj]

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 02:48 -0700, sara yazdani wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> The problem is that I only can print the images I have to .eps and for
> the jpeg and other formats I receive the followong error:
> 
> couldn't execute "/home/sara/xcrys_tmp/xc_8850/tmp.ppm": permission
> denied


In order to print in PNG and alike xcrysden needs ImageMagick external
program (which is available probably in all linux distributions). Try in
the terminal:

which convert

The answer should be something like:

/usr/bin/convert

If there is no answer, please install the ImageMagick
(http://www.imagemagick.org/). If you are using xcrysden version 1.5*
then xcrysden will automatically recognize ImageMagick and do a proper
job.

If your version of xcrysden is older you need to edit
~/.xcrysden/custom-definitions file and add something like:

set xcMisc(ImageMagick.convert) /path/to/my/convert

> Also, please let me know how I can increase the size of the image, as
> you mentioned in your email.

Maximize your xcrysden window, and then zoom as much as possible the
structure. (this should be sufficient)

Regards, Tone

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