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- This document contains the following:
-
- Order Information
- Install Instructions
- Fonts, Windows, and ChemWindow
- New Features Not Discussed In The Manual
-
-
- To Install ChemWindow Using Windows 3.x:
- -------------------------------------------------
- 1. From inside Windows 3.x, open the File Manager.
- 2. Create a directory on the hard disk called "CW"
- 3. Place the ChemWindow diskette in the exterior drive.
- 4. Drag the "CW.EXE" file from the exterior drive directory
- to the new CW directory on your hard drive.
- 5. Close File Manager and open Program Manager.
- 6. Select New from the File menu to create an icon.
- 7. Enter "ChemWindow" for the description and the path name
- for the command line. (Example: C\:CW\CW.EXE)
- 8. Double click the ChemWindow icon to start.
-
-
- To Install ChemWindow Using Windows 2.x:
- --------------------------------------------------------
- 1. At the DOS prompt, enter "MD CW".
- 2. Go to new directory by entering "CD CW" at the DOS prompt.
- 3. Place ChemWindow into floppy drive, we'll call it Drive A.
- 4. Copy ChemWindow to hard disk by entering, "COPY A:CW.EXE".
- 5. Enter "WIN CW" to run ChemWindow.
-
- To Install ChemWindow Using the Windows 2 Runtime:
- ________________________________________________________
- CAUTION: THIS PROCEDURE IS FOR USERS THAT DO NOT HAVE WINDOWS ON
- THEIR COMPUTER. THE RUNTIME IS ONLY PROVIDED TO THOSE THAT HAVE
- PURCHASED CHEMWINDOW. THE DEMO VERSION DOES NOT INCLUDE THE
- RUNTIME. TO INSTALL THE DEMO VERSION, YOU MUST HAVE WINDOWS ON
- YOUR COMPUTER.
-
- 1. Insert the Setup Disk into floppy drive, we'll call it Drive A.
- 2. Go to floppy drive by entering, "A:".
- 3. Start installation by typing, "SETUP".
- 4. The computer will instruct you on how to complete the installation.
-
- Fonts, Windows and ChemWindow
- ----------------------------------------------
- In the Windows environment, you have fonts for your screen and others for the
- printer. ChemWindow displays all fonts supported by your printer in the Font
- menu. This includes fonts that are permanently stored in your printer,
- cartridge fonts, or "Soft" fonts that are sent by your computer to the printer.
- The font sizes enabled in the "Size" menu are those supported by your
- printer for the currently selected font. When you use fonts in a document, the
- text displayed on your screen will use a screen font. Windows will use a
- font that is as close in appearance as possible to the selected printer font.
- You may have to purchase fonts to get the screen display of text to match the
- document better. Adobe sells screen fonts that corresponds to those found in
- Postscript printers. Bitstream (800-522-3668) sells "Soft" fonts that support
- the HP LaserJet printers and the screen. If you're going to use Windows 3.0,
- verify with the vendor that their fonts are compatible with 3.0 before
- ordering. Windows 3.0 contains a font with greek symbols (Symbol) for the
- screen. This font cannot be used for the LaserJet printer. If you have
- Windows 3, the best way to obtain good quality scaleable fonts for the screen
- and printer is to purchase Adobe Type Manager. The Courier, Helvetica, Times,
- and Symbol fonts are included when you buy Adobe Type Manager.
-
-
- New features in ChemWindow version 1.34
- --------------------------------------
- Version 1.34 represents the fourth upgrade in ChemWindow since its first
- introduction in August of 1989. This new version fixes a number of recently
- discovered bugs and makes a few needed modifications. Version 1.34 adds two
- new tools to your drawing palette─a chair ring of the opposite orientation to
- the existing chair and a Benzene ring in the Kékule form. Both rings were
- attainable in previous versions, but convenience dictated they be made more
- accessible.
-
- You will also notice in your version 1.34 that the dialog boxes for the on-line
- help command have been rewritten to better explain drawing tools.
-
- The default directory for saving documents can be set in the WIN.INI file.
- WIN.INI is found in your Windows directory. Edit it with NOTEPAD or any
- other text editor after running ChemWindow once. Find the section starting
- with "[ssCt]". Insert the line DIR="PATH", where PATH is the path for the
- default directory. For example, if you want all ChemWindow documents to be
- saved in C:\CW, your WIN.INI file will look like this:
-
- ...
- [ssCt]
- DIR="C:\CW"
- ...
-
- Other features not included in the manual.
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- "Breaking" bonds that cross. Crossing bonds, as in norbornane, are
- broken automatically to give a three dimensional effect. Clicking the
- hit box for a bond will bring the bond to the front. It may be necessary
- to click more than once if the click changes the bond type, too.
-
- Postscript files. The Save dialog box includes a new radio button for EPS
- files. Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, PageMaker, and many other programs
- import this graphics format. When used with the required Postscript printer,
- publication quality documents will be produced. Select the Postscript
- print driver when creating Postscript files. At the present time, the
- fonts supported are Avant Garde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica-Narrow,
- Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times Roman,
- Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Dingbats.
-
- Control Panel. The Microsoft Windows Control Panel application lets you
- change fonts, printers, and the Windows environment. It can be started
- with the "Control Panel" command in the "File" menu. Its use is generally
- self-explanatory. Users that do not have Windows may need to change
- printers or the communication port settings with the "Connections",
- "Printers", and "Communications Port" commands in the "Setup" menu. You
- can also add new printers with the "Add New Printer" command in the
- "Installation" menu (the drivers for printers are on the Windows disks).
-
- Creating HPGL files. HPGL files can be imported into Microsoft Word and many
- other programs. Create them by following these steps. Add the line
- "OUTPUT.PRN=" with any editor to the "[ports]" section of the "WIN.INI" file
- (it is in the Windows or ChemWindow directory). Install the HP Plotter
- Driver (HPPLOT.DRV on Utilities 1 disk) with the "Add New Printer" command
- in the "Installation" menu of Control Panel. Use the "Connections" command
- in the "Setup" menu of Control Panel to set the port for the HP Plotter to
- "OUTPUT.PRN=". Use the "Printer" command in the "Setup" menu of Control
- Panel to select the HP Plotter as the currently active printer. Set the
- line thickness for bonds and arcs to 1/4 point with ChemWindow's "Customize"
- command in the "Options" menu. Draw the structure. Print the document with
- the "Print" command in ChemWindow's "File" menu. An HPGL file is "printed"
- to the disk file: "OUTPUT.PRN". This file can be renamed, if desired, and
- imported into Microsoft Word. After importing the graphic into Word or
- another program, it might be rotated by 90 degrees. If this is the case,
- you can change between "Landscape" and "Portrait" page orientations with
- the "Page Setup" command in ChemWindow's "File" menu to correct the
- orientation. The Microsoft Word documentation recommends that the Plotter
- device be a "ColorPro". Select "ColorPro" in the "Device" menu of the
- "Page Setup" dialog box for best support with Microsoft Word.
-
- Show Clipboard. The "Show Clipboard" command in the "Edit" menu displays
- the contents of the Windows Clipboard.
-
- Symbol Font Name. The name of the font with Greek symbols, if any, should
- be entered in the text edit panel within the Customize dialog box. The
- default name is "Symbol".
-
- Style Menu. This now appears as two menus, Size and Style.
-
- Font Menu. The "Fonts..." command allows you to choose from the entire list
- of available fonts. The rest of the menu displays the 10 most frequently
- used fonts.