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MOL file compression

MarvinSketch and MarvinView can handle compressed molfiles that are typically five times smaller than their original, uncompressed version. This reduces the download time of HTML pages containing molecule applets.

Compressed molfiles can be created by choosing Edit / Source , then Format / Compressed Molfile in MarvinSketch or MarvinView. If you cannot find the Edit menu, then click on the upper left arrow in MarvinSketch, right click or double click the compound in MarvinView.

Code : csmol , cssdf , csrxn , csrdf

Extensions : .csmol , .cssdf , .csrxn , .csrdf

The support of these file formats will be discontinued by the following action plan:

From version 26.1.0, the related operations and API elements are deprecated.
From version 27.1.0, all related operations are printing a warning message on the standard output.
From version 28.1.0, all related operations and API elements are removed.
For further information, please see the related announcement