>>>>> On Mon, 18 Oct 1993 23:03:26 GMT, shaw at ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Shaw Mr. G) said:
Shaw> blood sweat and tears. So my question is, does anyone have an
Shaw> improved version of ORTEP for the PC or better still a different
Shaw> plotting program (that gives anisotropic thermal ellipsoids) that
Shaw> can produce HPGL or Postscript files.
Shaw> 4) We also use a plotting program called PLUTO (size 197,007 bytes,
Shaw> date stamped 1987) for doing student crystallography projects. PLUTO
Shaw> is easy to use but can only show atoms as spheres and all the plots
Shaw> on paper are mirror images of what appears on the screen ! Does
Shaw> anyone have an improved version of PLUTO ?
(A version of?) PLUTO is part of the CCP4 distribution. I'm not aware
of the mirror image problem with it. A re-write -- called NPO --
incorporating, amongst other things, ORTEP thermal ellipsoids will be
in the next release. This is due Real Soon Now and will announced
here when ready.
--Dave (not the secretary)
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