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Drawing Styles

Drawing parameters can be collectively set by applying a style.
MarvinSketch provides a built-in default style (ChemAxon style), which includes a small set of journal styles based on drawing parameters of some well-known scientific publications.

Additionally, MarvinSketch stores newly created user-defined journal styles.

Drawing Styles in MarvinSketch

The following pre-defined styles are available in MarvinSketch:

  • ACS
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Elsevier
  • European Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Helvetica Chimica Acta
  • Royal Society of Chemistry
  • Small
  • Synlett
  • Synthesis
  • Tetrahedron

Loading a Style

  1. Open the Document Style Settings dialog by selecting File > Document Style > Settings.
  2. Choose from the available styles by using the Journal style preset drop-down list.
  3. Click OK. The chosen style is applied to the whole document.

Restoring Default Settings

  1. Open the Document Style Settings dialog by selecting File > Document Style > Settings.
  2. Click the Restore to defaults button.
  3. Click OK.

Applying Drawing Parameters

  1. Open the Document Style Settings dialog by selecting File > Document Style > Settings.
  2. Set parameters in the Font Settings and the Size Settings pane.
  3. Click OK. The chosen parameters will be applied for the whole document.

Creating/Saving a New Style

  1. Open the Document Style Settings dialog by selecting File > Document Style > Settings.
  2. Select Custom from the Journal style preset drop-down list.
  3. Set the drawing properties.
  4. Click Set style name.
  5. Type a name for the new style in the Save Style dialog.
  6. Click OK.

Existing styles cannot be overwritten in the Save Style dialog.

Saved files are stored under the chemaxon/journal_styles/ directory of your home directory.
A style file can be added to the chemaxon/marvin/journal_styles directory under the Marvin installation directory. This new style file has to be listed in chemaxon/marvin/styles/styleFileList.properties.

The new style files are copied to the chemaxon/journal_styles/ library in your home directory and appear in the drop-down list of the Journal style pane.