Hi,
to produce publication quality figures you
want to use ChemDraw or IsisDraw. JDraw and Chemdoodle produce crappy structures
and you will recognize those immediately in lots of physical/theoretical
chemistry journals by their strange look. I have tried those myself. My
recommendation is to run ChemDraw in a virtual machine. It's not fun, but gives
you good
results.
Cheers, Hello Parthi, I have used BKChem for several years for
publication-quality structural drawings without much of a problem. It is
platform-independent because it is based on Python. Some distributions,
such as Debian and Ubuntu, include it in their repositories, but you can also
download it > from: http://bkchem.zirael.org/
It can produce nice EPS, PNG and PDF images and its main drawback is that it
cannot export to TIFF format, that some journals prefer. It can also
export to OpenOffice Draw format, so it gives you a lot of flexibility about how
to incorporate drawings into your manuscript.
Hope this helps. Victor You can also try ChemTool, EasyChem
and XDrawChem, all available from the Ubuntu repositories.
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