CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 PDF
CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 UPDATE
CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 UPGRADE
CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 SOFTWARE
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CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 UPDATE

So stay tuned for an update to this postīased on years of experience I am always loathe to update my Mac Operating system or Office version without first knowing that everything will work together. My suspicion is that it won’t, just that some Sierra features may not work. I am in the process of setting myself up a Sierra boot disk to see whether and where it breaks.

CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 UPGRADE

I strongly recommend users NOT to upgrade to Sierra if you plan on using this or other versions of ChemDraw. Thus this iteration of ChemDraw is not explicitly supported under Sierra. Development versions of ChemDraw are tested with the current release versions of Office and one or two versions back. So why does this continue to be a problem?įirstly it is important to know that when a new version of ChemDraw is in development, CambridgeSoft write it to be compatible with the current RELEASE version of the operating system, not the version currently in beta testing.

CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 PDF

The format changed to an enhanced PDF that contained both a bitmap version, and the underlying vector information (in CDXML) that described the structure. The nature of the way ChemDraw structures were copied to the clipboard also changed along the way. This process of round trip editing and has proven to be problematic nearly every time a new version of either Word, ChemDraw, or MacOS comes out. Your ChemDraw figure is no longer editable. Then they had to copy the new structure or Scheme in ChemDraw and return to Word, and paste the amended scheme in. If anything went wrong, you ended up with an uneditable blue bounded box Mac users had to copy the picture to the clipboard in Word, and paste it into an empty ChemDraw window and edit it.

CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 WINDOWS

This never worked on the Mac version of ChemDraw due to changes in the OS but did work in the Windows version. Microsoft dropped OLE support in 1996 in favour of their ActiveX controls. The technology used here was OLE ( Object Linking and Embedding) developed by Microsoft. You could make your changes and then save it, and be returned to Word with the amended scheme in place. In Ye Olde Days once you had pasted a ChemDraw picture or Scheme into a Word document, you could subsequently edit the structure by double-clicking it and ChemDraw would be launched. One of the reasons I am running a 5-year old version of Office is that the history of round trip editing is somewhat disappointing. This is because behind the scenes, ChemDraw now supports Unicode, the underlying technology that runs emoji, among other /fzfsmMLnXlīut the main thing we are interested here is not the new features but rather how does the new version fare with round trip editing.

CHEMDRAW PROFESSIONAL 15.0 SOFTWARE

When gleefully tweeting that I had gotten hold of the new software I immediately tweeted that ChemDraw now had emoji enabled, so yes, you can use a Dog as an atom label or in any text box really. I don’t have a high res monitor and haven’t tested multi-monitor systems yet. High resolution monitor support.Īccording to the release, multi-monitor and Retina display support is improved. But it is easily accessed by holding down the Option key while using the File menu. Incidentally, “Save as…” is now a hidden menu item in recent Mac OS’s, a “feature” I find a bit annoying. Autosave simply means that items left open and unsaved when you quit the app will reopen when the app is run again.

This does not mean that users can get lazy however, I still recommend doing the odd “Save As…” to keep what are now redundant copies. *This is not Chemdraw, just a PNG file in Preview New features of ChemDraw 16, taken from the flier. But first let us go through a few of the new features. For my previous posts on this subject see here, here, here, and here. Much of this review is concerned with it’s interoperability with Microsoft Office 2011 (specifically Word), as probably the vast majority of theses and papers in (organic) chemistry written on Macs would be written with this or older versions of Word as leapfrogging software package upgrades have a long, and sometimes chequered history together on the Mac. I hope to study ChemDraw under Sierra in a later post, but as of the time of posting Sierra is not a supported platform according to Cambridgesoft. So up front I will say that this is not a review of ChemDraw 16 running MacOS Sierra. My test platform is a 2011 27” iMac with 8 GB RAM, Running MacOS 10.11.6 (El Capitan), and Microsoft Office 2011 (14.6.8). The release of ChemDraw Professional that I am reviewing is version 16.0.0.82. I got my hands on the shipping version of ChemDraw 16 last week and so have been busily assembling factoids and tweeting a bit about it over at things first.

Chemdraw professional 15.0