[chimerax-users] high results tiff

[Elaine Meng]

Hi Fabian,
The important thing in either program (Chimera or ChimeraX) is not the dpi but the number of pixels.  Just calculate the number of pixels that you need for width and height and request that size.  I.e. if you want 144 dpi 2 inches wide then you need width 288 pixels.    If you want to mark it with a specific dpi you can always do that in some other image-editing program afterwards, e.g. Preview, Photoshop, ...

As for ChimeraX image examples:
There are several examples of ChimeraX images in the Feature Highlights and Example Images, with exact commands for setup given as linked .cxc files (ChimeraX command files).  Also, besides the "Coloring by Sequence Conservation" tutorial that you already saw, some other tutorials also give all the commands needed to reproduce their images.

Feature Highlights
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/features.html>

Example Images
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/gallery.html>

Coloring by Sequence Conservation
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/data/conservation-coloring/conservation-coloring.html>

Protein-Ligand Binding Sites tutorial
<https://www.rbvi.ucsf.edu/chimerax/docs/user/tutorials/binding-sites.html>

I hope this helps,
Elaine
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Elaine C. Meng, Ph.D.                       
UCSF Chimera(X) team
Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco

> On Jan 10, 2021, at 4:42 AM, Fabian Glaser <fglaser at technion.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> Dear experts,
> 
> I am sorry to bug with this issue again, but I dont’ find a good tutorial or clear instructions about the right way to prepare figures with high quality for publication with chimeraX, and I find myself again and again making them with chimera, since it seems I am able to produce 300 dpi with chimera on tiff for example using the save image dialogue, but on chimeraX I am only able to produce them with 72 dpi using the save command. I have tried all kind of sizes but… well for me it does not work yet.
> 
> Again, may this is trivial, but I am not an expert in graphics, and if somebody could guide me would be really thankful.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Fabian