At Bristol, we have the unfortunate situation of the Organic and Inorganic Depts using Macs, while we in Physical Chemistry (including me, the webmaster), use PCs and UNIX.
Ditto!! However the WWW stuff is done on Macs so this is kind of an inverse problem...some of the following may therefore not be relevant.
The text is just about do-able, but I'm having real problems converting the Chemdraw files. The best I've come up with is to get the author to
My solution to the whole problem is not nice, but works. I use my PC to read in Mac files (eg Microsoft Word + embedded ChemDraw) which works ok. I then use Paint Shop Pro to cut out the images - drop them down to 8 bits and save as gifs. The rest of the processing is done on the Macs using Graphic Converter (resize, reduce res. to 72dpi, make transparent etc.) The good thing is that the Macs will read PC disks (if you have PC Exchange) and therefore anything I create on my PC can be read on the server (in fact I set my PC up as an FTP server and use Fetch on the Macs to pull over the images etc..) So... what does this mean for your problem? I guess that if you can get people to write their stuff on a PC disk that would help. Mac files with OLE information shouldn't present a problem. If you have Mac disks with only ChemDraw files, again they are readable by the PC version and you can cut and paste them into PSP when they are open. Sorry if this sounds a bit convoluted but it's almost going home time and I'm not ready for it... Alan Dr. Alan Wilson School of Chemistry University of Birmingham, UK V 0121-414-7189 F 0121-414-4403 E a.wilson@bham.ac.uk ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)