Try installing imagemagick. I think that's needed for snapshot in VMD to
work.
Good luck!
Jason
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:46 PM, <steinbrt.rci.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> questions on vmd are also very well suited to be put on the vmd mailing
> list: vmd-l.ks.uiuc.edu
>
> I assume loading the amber trajectory and selecting the frame you wish to
> render in vmd worked fine? If the render snapshot option does not work
> (you did not say what the problem was) try to generate a povray output
> file, then render that using povray (free and part of many Linux distros
> IIRC).
>
> In my opinion, using a separate rendering engine apart from vmd allows you
> more control over your picture and makes nice publication quality figures.
> However, as a quick and simple approach, just take a screenshot and crop
> it to size.
>
> Tom
>
> On Wed, September 1, 2010 12:30 pm, Computational Chemist wrote:
> > I have 400 frames of a trajectory and I need to save a single frame as an
> > image.
> > I have tried using render- snapshot option and it didnot work. How can I
> > do
> > that.
> >
> >
> > Darine
> >
> >
> >
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