EasyChem
EasyChem is designed to draw high-quality molecules and chemical formulas (organic molecules in particular). It can export to many formats (e.g. PostScript, LaTeX and Fig).
| Tags | Scientific/Engineering Visualization Chemistry |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX Linux Windows Windows |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 02 May 2004 17:42
Changes: This release is able to use LaTeX fonts and symbols (greek letters, etc.) in EPS and PDF export.
- 19 Apr 2004 06:23
Changes: This is the first stable release of EasyChem. New features include ornaments, like non-bonding pairs and radicals. Some bugs were fixed, and a big part of the code was rewritten or cleaned.
- 28 Jan 2004 14:24
Changes: This release has PDF export, and EPS is now perfect. Rich text is handled (subscripts, superscripts, Greek letters, bold, italic, and all Latin1 characters). This release is stable and fully working.
- 18 Nov 2003 10:38
Changes: This release is still not perfect, but the main features are working (EPS export is beautiful) and the user interface is easy to start with.
- 13 Sep 2003 03:13
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- All comments
Recent commentsRe: why yet another?
well then I hope to see *different* product with different goal set -- and hope to start packaging it for ALT Linux (http://altlinux.org) :-)
PS: sorry for a bit provocative comment but I was starved without any usable drawing tools for years and now they begin to pour... to the extent that it shock a poor maintainer a bit :-)
Re: why yet another?
Yes, I did. Indeed, I used them a few months before deciding than the best way to draw press-quality molecules was to use xfig with a good library...
I sometimes write books (solutions of exams) with friends, and all of us think the same, that's why I decided to develop EasyChem.
The problem I see in all existing programs is: they intend to be easy to use at first try, kind of a quick-and-dirty approach. EasyChem would be a bit difficult to learn, but when you master it, you can be very fast, and with a huge precision. In fact, it's just like a specialized vectorial drawing tool.
Sorry for the long reply, but that's a question I really appreciated!
Thanks,
FX
why yet another?
did you examine another projects, like chemtool, xdrawchem and jchempaint? helping to improve one of them could be better than rolling one from scratch if you don't see something especially fatal in those.
thanks for effort anyways :)