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Tables for Crystallography Volume F Crystallography of biological macromolecules Edited by M. G. Rossmann and E. Arnold © International Union of Crystallography 2006 |
International Tables for Crystallography (2006). Vol. F. ch. 25.2, p. 705
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The plot files created by CTOUR are generic in nature and are not directly displayable. One needs a driver program to convert the generic files to the format appropriate for the desired display device. The appropriate drivers for several popular display devices are provided within the package and are described below.
For display on Silicon Graphics workstations, the interactive program VIEWPLT can be used to examine the generic plots created by CTOUR. Up to ten plots can be displayed simultaneously. It is particularly useful to display the various contoured Harker sections simultaneously during difference-Patterson interpretation.
For display of CTOUR plots on monitors supporting the X-Window protocol, including most workstation monitors and X-terminals, the program VIEWPLT_X can be used instead of VIEWPLT. The functionality is identical to the GL version.
The interactive program MKPOST is provided to generate standard PostScript equivalents from the generic plot files produced by CTOUR. Multiple plot files can be generated in the same process. The PostScript files can be printed, viewed with a PostScript previewer, or incorporated into other documents.
