xdrawchem is the tool you're looking for. Creates 2D images with the wedge-shaped bond lines for the 3d-look as in text books. gchempaint is another one similar that is gnome-centric. xdrawchem is "old school motif looking" :-)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Tom Freeman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tfreeman@intel.digichem.net">tfreeman@intel.digichem.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I have put this off longer that sanity suggests is safe: Anybody on this<br>
list use one of the open source chemical structure editors on a regular<br>
basis? Which one suits you best, given your needs?<br>
<br>
Back story:<br>
<br>
I start teaching a freshman level Organic/Biochem class to a crowd of<br>
community college students in another week and change. I need a structure<br>
editor with which to create chemical structures for import to<br>
OpenOffice which is my currently chosen document creation solution (buzz<br>
word central - sorry). For at least the first session, I will need to<br>
create 50-60 molecular structures a week, on the budget of an adjunct<br>
teacher at a state school (ie. no budget at all). Worse (in a way) it is a<br>
small school, and I'm the only chemical type on staff at all. All my<br>
chemical/education contacts are Windows types, and thus not terribly<br>
useful in this case.<br>
<br>
Currently, I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 on the laptop, and Fedora 13 on the<br>
desktop without development systems on either. I know how to get the<br>
developement systems working under Fedora, but I've been less successful<br>
with Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Any clues running around the list?<br>
<br>
Thanks for the assistance in advance people. Even if I cann't get to<br>
Atlanta functions, this is an awesome resource here!<br>
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