drawing template

Hi,


An interesting feature of MarvinSketch would be a drawing preference template for generation of structures for publication. For example, the ACS guidelines (for chemdraw) are:





drawing settings


Item - Settings


chain angle 120 degrees


bond spacing 18% of width


fixed length 14.4 pt (0.2 in.)


bold width 2.0 pt (0.0278 in.)


line width 0.6 pt (0.0083 in.)


margin width 1.6 pt (0.0222 in.)


hash spacing 2.5 (0.0345 in.)





text settings


Item - Settings


font Arial (PC)


size 10 pt


Under the preferences choose:


units points


tolerances 3 pixels





Is it possible to implement this either in an applet or in the standalone marvin beans?


Cheers,


Nicolas

Hello, in the new release you will be able to load/save settings (fonts, wire thickness, etc) and apply it for the whole document or only to a selected set set of atoms/bonds. Also document style can be adjusted - you will be able to create multi page documents, change paper size, margins, etc. So one will be able to create a profile for a particular publication, and save and load it. We will provide settings requred by JACS only for the moment but the list can be expanded - thanks for the settings description.

Great! You guys think faster than the ideas we come up with...


Thank you,


Nicolas