Thanks for providing the extra detail, particularly the link to the article by Rich Apodaca. When it is necessary to modify the drawings in LibreOffice document, it is required to find the related Marwin Sketch file in documents (if you did not forget to save it separately), re-edit the structure and export it as a new image… A very time consuming process…Īs I mentioned in my initial question, I have already ask the round-trip compatibility in Marwin Sketch forum and I indicated their opinion… Do you think LibreOffice developers are able to provide required functionality for chemical drawing software compatibility with round-trip editing? Can we make a request for such a development? Once it is done, I believe, LibreOffice will be the preferred word processing software of many users especially who need chemical drawing functionalities in Linux environment. svg …) and paste them into LibreOffice (which has generally resolution problems). With LibreOffice in Linux, the only possibility to edit chemical drawings is exporting the Marwin Sketch structures as images (.png. Since Marwin Sketch is the most functional and the most comfortable chemical software (from the graphical point of view), I am using only Marwin Sketch in Linux.

I have used different versions of the Chem(Bio)Office, Accelrys Draw and Marwin Sketch with MS office… All of these softwares has great compatibility in Windows with MS office for round-trip editing.Ĭurrently I am using Linux (xubuntu) and LibreOffice.

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