Converting Mac Chemdraw images to PC gif images. How?

[Andrew Hughes]

>Hi,
>
>At Bristol, we have the unfortunate situation of the Organic and
>Inorganic Depts using Macs, while we in Physical Chemistry (including
>me, the webmaster), use PCs and UNIX.  So when I have to create web
>pages for staff members in org/inorg chemistry, I keep on running into
>the problems of (a) converting their Mac files to PC-readable ones, and
>(b) converting their Mac Chemdraw diagrams into gif files.
>
>The text is just about do-able, but I'm having real problems converting
>the Chemdraw files.  The best I've come up with is to get the author to
>print out a good quality hard copy, and I scan it in using Windows formatting.
>
>But there must be a better way!!  Does anybody know of a simple
>utility program, or method, that will allow me to do this without all the
>faffing around?
>

        The method which I have used most successfully to convert Microsoft
word files into html on a Mac, where the Word files contain figures pasted
into them is as follows.
Save the Word file as RTF, use RTF2HTML (shareware application) to convert
the whole file into html, and at the same time spit out the
figures/pictures as PICT files, and then use CLIP2GIF to convert the
resulting PICT files into GIF files (as its name suggests it convert the
clipboard file or any PICT file into a GIF file). This is quite neat since
RTF2HTML produces html which contains <IMG SRC...... commands which expect
GIF files.

You could equally use CLIP2GIF to convert a Chemdraw picture one at a time
into a GIF by cutting the picture from Chemdraw (hence making it the
clipboard file) and then getting CLIP2GIF to do its work.

        Andy Hughes

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