Thank you for clarifying that. It may not be much consolation but I thought it might be useful to know that there are no problems with running mapslicer from the command line on linux but my font could be better ;-0
https://u.cubeupload.com/jbcooper/mapslicer.png Best wishes, Jon Cooper. jon.b.coo...@protonmail.com Sent with [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/) secure email. On Sunday, 18 February 2024 at 19:03, Bernhard Rupp <hofkristall...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Jon. Finding the peaks is not the problem; the *.ha file contains > those, as do the pdf. map sections. > > It is that I don’t know how to properly fix that Interface Configuration file > to have the PS distiller and mapslicer display the output. > > This problem occurs on 2 independent CCP4i installations on different Windows > 10/11 computers.... > > Thx, BR > > From: CCP4 bulletin board <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> On Behalf Of Jon Cooper > Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2024 09:39 > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Interface Configuration and Mapslicer Question > > You could search for peaks of decreasing height by stepping back through > through alphabet with your text searches. Of course, peakmax will do a good > job of finding them anyway. > > Best wishes, Jon Cooper. jon.b.coo...@protonmail.com > > Sent from Proton Mail mobile > > -------- Original Message -------- > On 18 Feb 2024, 17:35, Jon Cooper < > 0000488a26d62010-dmarc-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk> wrote: > >> I think we used to use mapsig for printing map sections with single >> characters to show peak height. You could set it so that low or no density >> was just a dot and higher values were 0...9 ... A... Z ... * #, etc. up to >> the maximum or maybe it was another one of Ian's programs. It made peak >> searching with a text editor pretty easy just by searching for the >> characters corressponding to the high values. I don't know if that's any use. >> >> Best wishes, Jon Cooper. jon.b.coo...@protonmail.com >> >> Sent from Proton Mail mobile >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> On 18 Feb 2024, 03:29, Bernhard Rupp < hofkristall...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Der CCP4 Experts & Developers, >>> >>> I am exercising in CCP4i (Windows, 8.0.017) some old-fashioned native >>> Patterson maps for NCS analysis, using ‘patterson’ of FFT which produces >>> the *.map (dump) file and 3 Harker *.plt files. >>> >>> Unfortunately, epic fail on the display of the results. >>> >>> The ghostview (cf. image) I cannot install (some dll error) and it also >>> seems deprecated. >>> >>> As a workaround I use pltdev to generate a *.ps file and distil it into a >>> pdf and then display. Works, but ghostly 20th century.... >>> >>> ...or I display the map directly in Coot and eyeball the >>> peaks....surprisingly neat and educational. >>> >>> Q1: Do we have a direct way in the GUI to convert/display these CCP4 plt >>> files? >>> >>> I failed adding as PSviewer "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat >>> DC\Acrobat\acrodist.exe" in the interface configuration (problem maybe the >>> blanks). >>> >>> But the entry in the Interface Configuration (config.def) seems sensibly >>> quoted: >>> >>> PS_PREVIEW_NAME,4 _text acrodist.exe >>> >>> PS_PREVIEW_COM,4 _text "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat >>> DC\Acrobat\acrodist.exe" >>> >>> Q2: how do I properly enter the path to the distiller in the interface >>> configuration? >>> >>> Mapslicer is also uncooperative (cf. img). >>> >>> The Interface Configuration entry informs me that “ccp4mapwish [file join >>> [GetEnvPath CCP4I_TOP] bin mapslicer.tcl]”. >>> >>> Q3: How should I fix this (I swear I did not wish with the installation)? >>> >>> In search of a more modern approach to this map analysis I also tried >>> CCP4i2 and Phenix, but there was no task like >>> >>> “Make a native Patterson and show me the *&%# map” to be found. >>> >>> Q4: would this be a useful task to provide? >>> >>> (a selfrotation task exists in ccp4i2 via molrep, and there, PS viewing >>> works just fine). >>> >>> Cheers, BR >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Bernhard Rupp, Psilosopher >>> >>> https://psilosophy.org/ >>> >>> https://www.hofkristallamt.org/ >>> >>> b...@hofkristallamt.org >>> >>> +1 925 209 7429 >>> >>> +43 676 571 0536 >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> All models are wrong but some are useful. >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >>> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
