From hurst {*at*} hyper.hyper.com Tue Oct 25 13:21:00 1994 Received: from seraph.uunet.ca for hurst ^%at%^ hyper.hyper.com by www.ccl.net (8.6.9/930601.1506) id MAA16171; Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:48:32 -0400 Received: from hyper by mail.uunet.ca with UUCP id <86637-4>; Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:48:57 -0400 Received: by hyper.hyper.com.hyper.com (931110.SGI/890607.SGI) (for ccl.net!chemistry) id AA15508; Tue, 25 Oct 94 12:23:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 12:23:27 -0400 From: hurst %-% at %-% hyper.hyper.com (Graham Hurst) Message-Id: <9410251623.AA15508;at;hyper.hyper.com.hyper.com> To: Craig D Hamilton , chemistry -A_T- ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:PC Molecular Modelling Craig D Hamilton writes: > Does anyone know of MSWindows based molecular modeling programs that will > provide high quality color hard copies of ball and stick molecules? We have > a color bubble jet printer. The combination of HyperChem and ChemPlus can print high quality color hard copies of ball and stick molecules, with or without shading. The Molecule Presentations module of ChemPlus prints at printer resolution or can copy the molecular image to the Windows clipboard as either a bitmap (screen resolution) or metafile (device independent) with full control over colors, atomic radii, etc. When ChemPlus metafile images are pasted into other Windows programs, like Word or WordPerfect, they will print at printer resolution. ChemPlus is a set of extensions for HyperChem. For more information please send email to info.,at,.hyper.com. You may find that you have to play with printer settings to get the most pleasing output. I find that the best output of shaded images occurs if you choose diffuse halftoning instead of pattern halftoning, and use screen-matched colors (these are options for the Canon BJC-600 but the HP DeskJet drivers have similar options). If your printer driver doesn't offer diffuse halftoning (eg. you're using the Microsoft Postscript driver), try adjusting the halftone screen frequency (lower values give smoother shading but less detail). At the risk of wasting further bandwidth on non comp. chemistry issues, Windows users that are using the Microsoft Postscript driver might want to know that Adobe has a "new" PS driver (since last spring I think), ver 2.1.1. This is the one that HP has on their BBS and ftp site (192.6.71.2) as their current Postscript driver for Laserjet, Paintjet, Deskjet and DisplayWriter printers. You can also buy the driver (for $25 or so) from Adobe, but check before buying that it has a PPD file for your printer. Hope this helps, Graham ------------ Graham Hurst (hurst ":at:" hyper.com) Hypercube Inc, 7-419 Phillip St, Waterloo, Ont, Canada N2L 3X2 (519)725-4040 Info requests to: info ":at:" hyper.com Support questions to: support ":at:" hyper.com Email group: Send "subscribe hyperchem" to hyperchem-request#* at *#hyper.com