This is symptomatic of the lack of platform- and application independent formats. This is why I am keen to develop common standards such as CML. I can't help with (a). On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Paul May wrote: [...]
the problems of (a) converting their Mac files to PC-readable ones, and > (b) converting their Mac Chemdraw diagrams into gif files.
If you can dump the 2-D coordinates and connexion table out of Chemdraw, as ASCII it should be possible to convert them to mdl. (Send me some and I'll have a look - I don't use chemdraw, but I'd be happy to hack a file. Then there is a utility from Roger Sayle (mdl2gif) which converts mdl files to gif. I think I posted it under http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/cml - if not, mail me. If the chemdraw diagrams are simple 2-D diagrams this should be possible in the batch - else it may not be possible automatically. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Glaxo Research & Dev. (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk); (BioMOO: PeterMR) Birkbeck College, ubcg09q@cryst.bbk.ac.uk, CBMT/Daresbury mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/PPS/index.html, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/HOME.html ----- 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)