[xcrysden] Problem in printing/saving the structure and contour plots of electron density

[Tone Kokalj]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 22:07 -0700, Masood Yousaf wrote:

> when I press OK on this message and then try to save fallowing error
> appears.
> 
> ERROR: while executing exec xwd -id
> 0*280003c-out/home/wien2k/xcrys_tmp/xc_48294/0b.xwd.
> 
> I dont know where this Thermo scale is saved ?

As for printing the thermometer the following is important:

1. Thermometer can be printed only when it is displayed in a separate
toplevel window (tick the "thermometer in toplevel" checkbutton)

2. It is printed by pressing the "Print Thermo" button. It is saved in
the file specified in the popup window. As the message suggests the
printing is done as a window dump; xcrysden either uses xwd or
ImageMagicks's import program for dumping windows. 

It appears that there was a problem dumping a content of a thermometer
window with the xwd program, which is likely the reason you didn't get
the thermometer printed. 

You can try manually to dump the thermometer window as:

xwd -out thermo.xwd

then click on the thermometer window (not the border, but somewhere in
the middle of the window) and the thermometer will be printed in file
thermo.xwd

Regards,

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