There are dozen molecular editor for chemistry and biology [1], but very few of them are open source (or even free for education), and the lasts are feature-limited. Thus, XDrawChem [2] can draw quiet complicated molecules, but draws them not very beautifully. In the other side, this open source program can export images in SVG format, used as default in Inkscape [3], a famous vector editor, which is used to produce very beautiful drawings.
Our action is:
First, draw the molecule (or parts of it) in XDrawChem, then export the image in SVG format:
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| Draw part of the future molecule (Tinuvin 320) in XDrawChem |
Open and edit the SVG file in Inkscape, and don't forget to convert text to path, if you want to edit the file in other system:
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| Tinuvin 320 (antioxidant) |
Finally, save as pdf to use in a LaTeX document, or export to PNG to use in OpenOffice.org.
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