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Hi all,
Open Office 2.3 is an excellent software package and does almost
everything I need from my office software. I was particularly
impressed by the improvement to the "Calc" graphs in v2.3 as I felt
that the graphs had been the only draw back to using open office. The
one thing I am lacking now is a chemical drawing feature. There are a
number of open source programs available to create chemical structures
but what I ideally need is something which can be easily integrated
into one of the Open Office programs, so that structures don't have to
be imported as pictures that cannot be subsequently amended. I don't
know whether this would be best done as an added feature to an
existing program such as "Draw", as a plug in or as a completely new
program but it would be a great help to all the chemists like myself
who currently use Open Office.
I suspect that Draw is indeed the proper place to add such a plug-in.
Adding such features is certainly easier for OOo than for M$ Office
because of the open source nature of OOo. I also suspect that the only
person who could build such an add-on would be a chemist who can program
in C++. I doubt that most software developers would have a clue as to
what such a piece of software would have to be able to do. Since you
are asking for this very specialized feature, you probably know more
people with such qualifications than any of the developers at OOo do.
It sounds like the thing for a chemistry department at a university to
tackle as a class project or some such.
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