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 paletteÄa chair ring of the opposite orientation to the existing chair and a Benzene ring in the K‚kule 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. -------------------------------------- "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.