- Free chemical structure drawing software software#
- Free chemical structure drawing software windows#
Use of OLE will remain potentially problematic for interoperability until the OLE data structure spec ( MS-OLEDS) is listed in the Open Specification Promise.ChemDoodle 2D v11.5 is a feature update. In late 2013 OASIS submitted a Referencing Explanatory Report (RER) about using this old work as a reference for ODF. Microsoft OLE (the ODF spec references the 1995 work Inside OLE by Kraig Brockschmidt) is used in this respect. One particularly severe shortcoming of ODF is the lack of an open or ISO/IEC-approved object linking and embedding model. This is a workflow that Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) was specifically designed to solve. The idea of cutting and pasting an embedded object (e.g., drawing) back and forth between an office application and an external drawing application is (to me) a poor example of workflow. This may be the root cause of what you are experiencing. There does not appear to be an equivalent section in the ODF specification v1.2 for handling content not defined by the spec. Again though, I doubt this applies to an expectation of cut / paste roundtripping (although it may). There is a special section of the OOXML specification (17.17.3) dedicated to Roundtripping Alternate Content. The distinction is the editing of an entire compound file, rather than a single piece of that compound file. This is usually done using Microsoft file formats, but with MS Office 2013 can now be done more easily with ODF. This term is usually used in LO in relation to having an office document edited by application A (e.g., LO), then application B (e.g., MSO), then application A again. The process of moving a chemical structure or drawing from a structure editor to a word processor and back is called “round trip editing”. I now understand there is a difference between your definition of “round-trip” and the usual LO one (in terms of application). Thanks for providing the extra detail, particularly the link to the article by Rich Apodaca.
Free chemical structure drawing software software#
When it is necessary to modify the drawings in LibreOffice document, it is required to find the related Marwin Sketch file in documents (if you did not forget to save it separately), re-edit the structure and export it as a new image… A very time consuming process…Īs I mentioned in my initial question, I have already ask the round-trip compatibility in Marwin Sketch forum and I indicated their opinion… Do you think LibreOffice developers are able to provide required functionality for chemical drawing software compatibility with round-trip editing? Can we make a request for such a development? Once it is done, I believe, LibreOffice will be the preferred word processing software of many users especially who need chemical drawing functionalities in Linux environment. svg …) and paste them into LibreOffice (which has generally resolution problems). With LibreOffice in Linux, the only possibility to edit chemical drawings is exporting the Marwin Sketch structures as images (.png.
Since Marwin Sketch is the most functional and the most comfortable chemical software (from the graphical point of view), I am using only Marwin Sketch in Linux.
Free chemical structure drawing software windows#
I have used different versions of the Chem(Bio)Office, Accelrys Draw and Marwin Sketch with MS office… All of these softwares has great compatibility in Windows with MS office for round-trip editing.Ĭurrently I am using Linux (xubuntu) and LibreOffice.
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