Dear Eleanor:
Can't speak for the Molrep folks, but I would like to point out that
PostScript is not non-modern and has some advantages:
It's a veritable programming language to write out math illustrations in
simple text format (thus the files can also be edited using a simple
text editor).
For an excellent reference, see:
Bill Casselman, "Mathematical Illustrations: A manual of geometry and
PostScript" (Cambridge University Press, 2005); to check it out you can
also take the link to Casselman's open access book pages at
<https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/>.
Since the files are simple text files, it's also easy to combine it with
programming in Fortran etc. to generate illustrations directly, probably
the reason Molrep prefers to generate .ps files (and at least I do hope
it stays that way :). (Certainly the case also with other programs like
George Sheldrick's SADABS and others.)
Conversion to pdf is straightforward:
$ ps2pdf <postscript_filename.ps>
will generate a pdf file of the same name but with a pdf ending.
Or you can open postscript files themselves using evince, okular,
ghostscript, gs, etc.
Hope that helps.
Best regards,
Navdeep
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On 14.03.25 11:29, Eleanor Dodson wrote:
Did anyone come up with a modern method to do this?
MOLREP self rotation still writes postscript
hklview ditto - it PRETENDS to offer a pdf from ccp4i2 but that only
shows the axes!
Help! Eleanor
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