http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/ 2010-09-08T03:19:46+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/ http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-04-20T14:05:19+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/available_packages?rev=1271765119&do=diff Gentoo Linux Gentoo ebuild is provided with each release directly on the download page. Fedora Thanks to Henrique “LonelySpooky” Junior, BKChem is now available in the official Fedora repository. Just do “yum install bkchem” to get it. text/html 2008-11-19T07:32:08+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/batch_scripts?rev=1227076328&do=diff Batch scripts This page contains user-made scripts that can be used from command line to perform repetitive task in BKChem. The most common case is conversion between formats, but the possibilities are virtually unlimited. Yo use the scripts you just need to run BKChem with a -b switch and name of the batch script file: text/html 2007-10-23T07:21:54+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/bkchem_to_odf_conversion?rev=1193116914&do=diff BKChem to ODF conversion batch script Name svg2odg.py BKChem version 0.12.0_pre4 and higher Category file conversion Source Run as bkchem -b svg2odg.py [filenames] This simple script takes all files given as arguments and converts them to the corresponding ODF Draw (.odg) files. In case a directory is given, it tries to convert all SVG files in that directory. text/html 2007-10-13T19:24:42+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/documentation?rev=1192296282&do=diff This page gives an overview of the wiki-based documentation for users of BKChem. This list will grow over time. You should read it from the beginning (equals top entry) to the end (equals last entry). However, that is by no means a necessity. ---------- * First things first a short introduction to BKChem. text/html 2008-11-01T19:08:58+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/fonts?rev=1225562938&do=diff When you try to import a bkchem-svg into to other programs like inkscape, you might suffer problems from fonts substitution, because the bkchem-fonts are not available to inkscape and vice versa. Here's how you make the fonts inkscape uses available to bkchem: text/html 2007-09-29T15:34:54+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/half-arrowheads?rev=1191072894&do=diff Preface For your information, the most recent version of BKChem was 0.12.0_pre3 at the time of writing. Please, read this article to the end, because this method has some drawbacks. As you might have noticed BKChem has built-in support for arrows. Unfortunalety, you can only create full and no half-arrowheads. That is one wedge below and one above instead of one below or above the arrow-line. text/html 2009-05-18T13:41:33+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/howtos?rev=1242646893&do=diff This page serves as a crossroad for howtos, articles, hints, and tricks that might prove useful for users of BKChem, to supplement the user's manual that is included in the doc/html/ directory of the installed files. Howtos * a very short introduction to using BKChem * [Kludging BKChem] by Gary Bartholomew shows how wrestle BKChem to do what you want in a very nice and well commented tutorial. * looking for some general workflow tips? * oo-exporter-workflow points out some pitfalls … text/html 2008-11-01T21:43:06+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/inkscape?rev=1225572186&do=diff BKChem and Inkscape are a great pair, BKChem is good at Chemistry and Inkscape is good at everything else. There are, however, some issues which make life difficult, i will collect them here: 1. BKChem and Inkscape do not use the same fonts by default, to solve this look here. text/html 2007-10-13T19:16:47+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/introduction?rev=1192295807&do=diff Hello and welcome to the wiki based documentation of BKChem. This series of articles is intended for users that have never worked before with chemical drawing programs. These programs let you draw molecules. If you need help with your very first steps at drawing molecules or you struggle at some point with a setting/plugin, this documentation is for you. text/html 2010-04-02T10:12:40+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/known_problems?rev=1270195960&do=diff Fonts in PDF (PS, PNG) export do not match original or non-ASCII letters are mangled Here I copy a reply to one user who reported this problem to make it available to others: I have had a look at the problem you reported. As I was afraid, it is a problem caused by different handling of fonts in Tkinter (the library that BKChem uses to display windows) and Cairo (the library used for PDF export). These two libraries have separate ways of finding fonts and it sometimes happens that they find a… text/html 2007-11-27T19:03:46+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/oo-exporter-workflow?rev=1196186626&do=diff Preface For your information, the most recent version of BKChem was 0.12.0_pre3 at the time of writing this article. As a preface, I would like to point out the dis-/advantages of this method using the OO (OpenOffice Draw) exporter. The workflow will result in a file that is scalable and can be imported into OO. This means you can resize the picture to your liking without a grainy final picture on the print. text/html 2008-09-12T19:50:05+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/smiles_to_png_conversion?rev=1221241805&do=diff Smiles to PNG batch conversion Name smi2png.py OASA version 0.12.1 and higher Category file conversion Source Run as smi2png.png [filenames] This simple script takes all files given as arguments and converts them to the corresponding PNG bitmap files. It also generates an overview.html with all the results text/html 2010-04-02T10:08:30+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/start?rev=1270195710&do=diff This is the wiki of BKChem, a free chemical drawing program. I would like this wiki to become the central point for user documentation, hints, tricks and other stuff related to using and developing BKChem. * About BKChem * How to participate * License text/html 2009-05-11T08:34:15+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/templates?rev=1242023655&do=diff The purpose of this bkchem wiki page is to host all the templates that exist for bkchem out there. To collect as many templates as possible we need YOU! Feel free to upload your own templates here. How to create a template This FAQ entry on the bkchem website explains it pretty well. How_To_build_custom_templates It would be nice if you could export your template as png file, too. So one can preview the template right here in the wiki. text/html 2007-10-18T22:16:13+02:00 http://bkchem.zirael.org/wiki/tips?rev=1192738573&do=diff For you information, this information has compiled while BKChem version 0.12.0_pre3 was latest. It lists general workflow tips. Some tips and tricks are listed at the “Tips and tricks” section of the FNA/FAQ page. However, the following tips were extracted out of progress.log and only new tips are displayed.