Drawing & visualization: Marvin/Sketch/View/Space

Dear Sir,

Greetings.

I refer to free Marvin 5.6.0.2 working under Windows XP SP2.

Is it possible to add 

File>Save As>Files of  Type PostScript(*.eps) and PostScript with preview(*.eps)

in the next free version of Marvin.

With Best Wishes,

Dr A. Thiruvalluvar.

Greetings,

the Postscript export capability is on our feature requests list, and we will implement it in the future, currently we can not give you estimations on it, for now i can tell only that it will happen in the near future.

Best regards,
Istvan

Me too: I need eps export in order to use the very useful "chemnum" package of LaTeX (similar to chemscheme, which also needs eps, but newer: it recognises the text TMP1 in the eps image and replaces with the appropriate numbering). Up to now I have to save to svg with MarvinSketch, open the svg with Inkscape, resize, add the TMP1 text, save in eps. It's enough if the "save as... PDF" function in MarvinSketch will save the text as text instead as a group of vectors as happens now. In that case would be sufficient a pair of Linux commands: pdfcrop, pdf2ps and maybe ps2eps.

Thank you for your great work,

Ilario Gelmetti

Dear Ilario,

can you tell me exactly what kind of things should be saved in textual format into the pdf to support the described workflow?

I am curious because we implemented a feature for OSX where the structure source is saved as mrv into the pdf clipboard format, which is the default format on the Mac pasteboard. This could be applied into the pdf saving mechanism, but it is a bit tricky, since on the Mac pasteboard there is a simple pdf format image, while when saving a pdf, a document has to be created and saved, and for the two aproach currently we are using two different library.

Istvan

Thank you for your answer Istvan!

Here you are an example of what I mean:

http://eigenlab.org/~ilario/Use_of_Chemnum-eps.zip

As you can see, chemnum is a very useful package for LaTeX which manage the numbering of chemicals.

in brief: I need to put in a chemical scheme some text like TMP1, TMP2, TMP3...

Then the package chemnum is able to recognize and to find the position of the text "TMP1" inside the eps image (no problem if the output file is pdf. I can simply convert to eps using pdf2ps and ps2eps Linux commands) and to replace it with the correct molecule number.

Thank you very much,

Ilario Gelmetti

Thanks for the feedback.

My colleague, Istvan is on holiday this week. He can reflect your post after he has returned.

I'd love to see this feature too. The lack of eps export for latex applications (namely chemnum) is the only reason I need to use other chem drawing applications...

I put this task to our "TO DO" list, but cannot promisse any deadline when it will be ready.

Best Regards,

Efi

Bump...

This feature is still missing, right?

Up to now I solve saving in SVG and converting the SVG file in EPS using svg2x. To download svg2x source: "git clone git://git.cheshirekow.com/svg2x.git" then install dependencies and compile: "cd svg2x; ./bootstrap.sh; make".

Bye!

Ilario

Is this feature already out? Awaiting for it. Certainly would be beneficial for us.

Regards,

Kayden

Dear All!

   Unfortunatelly this was not released yet.

Regards:
Balázs 

I am happy to inform you that 6.2 version will contain eps and tiff export.

Dear ehoffmann,

Greetings from Thiruvalluvar!

Thank you very much for the eps and tiff export in Marvin 6.2 version.

This will help many crystallographers like me and chemists as well.

Hope the Marvin download will increase due this support.

With best wishes,

Dr. A. Thiruvalluvar.