Converting Mac Chemdraw images to PC gif images. How?
Hi, 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. So when I have to create web pages for staff members in org/inorg chemistry, I keep on running into the problems of (a) converting their Mac files to PC-readable ones, and (b) converting their Mac Chemdraw diagrams into gif files. 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 print out a good quality hard copy, and I scan it in using Windows formatting. But there must be a better way!! Does anybody know of a simple utility program, or method, that will allow me to do this without all the faffing around? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Paul May, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK tel: +44 (0)117 9287667, fax: +44 (0)117 9251295 email: paul.may@bris.ac.uk WWW: http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Chemistry/staff/pwm.htm "Another squashed hedgehog in the gutter of the information superhighway" ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- 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)
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)
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