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Select/Move/Rotate tool .
Try drawing the micelle picture using the copying feature (CTRL + drag), Group, Rotate
90°, Select/Move/Rotate as well as the aligning and flipping tools :
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8.7 Creating a Poster
Using ChemSketch you can quickly draw a poster and print it on paper of any format.
ACD/ChemSketch will automatically separate the poster into pages; the only thing you have to do
(besides design them) is attach them.
This section is based on the movie poster.exe which can be downloaded from our Web
site or found in the Movies folder.
1. From the File menu choose the Page Setup command.
2. In the Size & Orient tab set the paper format and choose the Landscape option.
3. Select the Poster tab. Set the number of standard pages you want your poster to consist of by
clicking on the spin buttons. Note that you can see the automatically calculated size of the
poster in the Virtual page size field:
4. In the Margin tabs set the page margins and click OK.
5. Draw your poster using the tools in the Structure and Draw modes. Use the Full Page button
to see the general layout as you prepare it.
Note You can use the Paste and Paste Special commands from the Edit menu to insert
objects (text, pictures and etc.) created in other Windows applications. You can also
edit these objects using OLE.
6. In the Preferences dialog box (Options menu) in the General tab, select the View Printable
area check box, if you want to see how your poster will be divided into individual pages while
being printed.
7. Choose the Printer Setup command from the File menu.
8. In the Select Printer dialog box choose the Set Up button and in the Font tab select the Print
TrueType as Graphics option. Note that this step may be different for each printer. Click OK.
9. Choose the Print command from the File menu or click the Print button on the General
toolbar to print your poster and attach the pages.
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9. Working with Styles in Structure Mode
9.1 Objectives
If you often display your structure with a particular set of attributes, such as size of font, type of
font, thickness of bond line, etc., you can make ChemSketch remember these settings by saving
them altogether as a  Style. This is especially helpful if you want to display molecules one way
when working with them, but make them conform to a particular journal style when submitting a
paper for publication.
In this chapter you will learn how to:
" change the style of structures;
" save your style;
" apply an existing style; and
" set a default style.
9.2 Changing Style of Structures
A style is collection of attributes for display (atom and bond for structures; pen, arrow, fill, font,
paragraph for objects and text) to which you can assign a name and save.
1. Using the technique described in Chapter 7 draw
O
the following structure representing the fragment
OH
of a DNA molecule. Save it as dnafrag.sk2.
NH
Tip This structure can be drawn with the help HO P O
of the Template Window > DNA/RNA
N O
O
Kit tab. Use the 2-deoxyriboso-5-
O
phosphate, uracil and guanine
components. When attaching a template,
O
use the SHIFT + click to attach it without
creating an additional bond. For more
O
N
NH
details on how to use the Template
HO P O
Window refer to Section 7.5
N
N NH2
O
O
OH
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9.2.1 Applying a Journal Style
Let s say that you have written a scientific article and, to accompany it, you want to submit this
drawing of the molecule to the Journal of Organic Chemistry.
1. Select the molecule using the Select/Move tool .
2. Move your cursor over one of the selection markers so that they turn from small outlined squares
to solid black squares. Double-click and the Properties dialog box appears.
3. Click on the small arrow beside the Style box and a drop-down menu appears.
Select JOC Style (1996) from the list:
4. Click the Apply button and you will see the display of the molecule changes to reflect that
journal s style. Click beside the molecule to unselect it, so you can see it more clearly:
O
OH
NH
HO P O
N O
O
O
O
O
N
NH
HO P O
N
N NH2
O
O
OH
5. From the File menu, select Save As and write your structure to file as dnafrag2.sk2.
6. Select the whole molecule again, and from the Style menu in the Properties dialog box, select
Normal.
7. Click the Apply button and the molecule should appear as before.
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9.2.2 Preparing for Publication
In addition to making your structural drawing conform to the guidelines of a particular journal, there
are many other matters to deal with during manuscript preparation. For this reason, Advanced
Chemistry Development has included Instructions for Authors, a hyperlinked list of guidelines for
over 40 journals. Information provided for each journal includes instructions for presentation of
tables, figures, manuscript content, etc.
1. For example, from the Help menu, select Instructions for Authors.
2. Click American Chemical Society (ACS) Journals and find the Journal of Organic
Chemistry in the list.
3. From the list of items that appears, select Structural Drawings. The style described is that
embodied in the style used in the previous section.
4. Use the Back button to return to the list of other journals so you can view their guidelines, too.
Note Not all journals have explicit instructions for structural drawings, and so they do not
appear as a definite style listed in the Structure Properties dialog box.
9.3 Creating Your Own Style
Let s say that you want to make a presentation in which you want to colorfully distinguish between
the sugar, phosphate, and amino acid groups of the portion of DNA you are describing.
1. Open the file dnafrag.sk2 (or draw the DNA fragment shown above in Section 9.2) and confirm
that you are in Structure mode.
2. Switch to the Lasso On tool and choose the Select/Move tool .
3. Select the sugar components by dragging around them (hold down the SHIFT key when
selecting separate components):
+Shift
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4. Move the cursor over any part of the selected fragment so that the selection squares become
black. Double-click to display the Properties panel:
9.3.1 User-defined Style: Sugar
1. In the Atom Style and Bond Style sections click on the color field and set another color for the
selected fragments, for example, red. Set the bond width to a different value, for example, to 1.9
pt.
Note Units of measurement used in most of the panels within ChemSketch correspond to
those set in the Preferences dialog box (Options menu). You may set values for
width, length, etc. in points/inches/millimeters/centimeters. Type the values and add
the unit you want (pt/in/mm/cm), e.g. 5 pt. The values will be recalculated in the
corresponding units of measurement.
2. Click Apply. As you can see the selected segments are colored with red now:
O
OH
NH
HO P O
O
N
O
O
O
O
N
NH
HO P O
N
O
NH2
N
O
OH
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3. To save this style for future use, in the Style list box of the Properties dialog box, type Sugar
and click Save:
4. You will be prompted whether you want to save this user-defined style. Click Yes.
9.3.2 User-defined Style: Phosphate
1. In a similar way, select the phosphate part of the molecule, and define a thick bond width and
blue color for the bonds and atom fonts.
2. Save this style as Phosphate and then click Apply to carry it out on the molecule:
O
OH
N H
HO P O
O
N
O
O
O
O
N
NH
O
HO P
N
O
N NH2
O
OH
9.3.3 User-defined Style: Base
1. For the bases, set the color of atom symbols to dark green and for bonds to neon green.
2. Save this style as Base and then click Apply to carry it out on the molecule:
O
OH
NH
P O
HO
N O
O
O
O
O
N
NH
O
HO P
N
NH2
N
O
O
OH
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