Re: [Gchempaint-main] Opening ChemDraw files & saving .eps

[Francesco Pietra]

Hi:


--- On Tue, 5/27/08, Jean Bréfort <address@hidden> wrote:

> From: Jean Bréfort <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Gchempaint-main] Opening ChemDraw files & saving .eps
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 1:15 AM
> Le lundi 26 mai 2008 à 23:21 -0700, Francesco Pietra a
> écrit :
> > Having upgraded from etch to lenny Debian Linux i386,
> I have installed gchempaint0.8.7. The installed version of
> openbabel, libopenbabel1 and libopenbabel2 is 2.1.1-4.
> > 
> > I have problems in opening ChemDraw files.
> 
> All chemdraw files? Or with a specific one?

both .cdx and .cdxml I have just asked new samples from my colleagues 
(Windows/ChemDraw addicts: for me a mystery why it should be so in a scientific 
environment. They well know that computational chemistry is through unix or 
unix-like) confirming my inability to open them.
Actually this is no problem with editors, who are happy with eps. Only a 
problem in collaborations with other labs.




>  You'll find some hints about cdx files loading status
> at
> https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?21112
> 
> > Also, there is no option to save in either .eps or
> tiff format (which is what the editors ask for
> publications)
> 
> File/Save as Image menu item should do that out of the box.
> Although the
> eps export is not optimal in 0.8 (it has been fixed in
> 0.9.x).

I was silly enough not to discover that by myself. 


Thanks a lot for this answer and, of course, for providing gchempaint.

francesco

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> > francesco pietra
> > 
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