User guide

standard makes InChIKey strings useful for Web searching and database indexing.
To copy a structure as an InChIKey string to other documents:
1. Select the structure.
2. Go to Edit>Copy As>InChIKey.
For more information on InChI™ and InChIKey, see www.iupac.org/inchi/.
Scrap and clipping Files
You can use scrap files to copy parts of a drawing to other applications after saving the file in ChemBioDraw 13.0.
To create a scrap or clipping file:
1. Select an object in a document.
2. Drag the selection out of the document window onto the desktop. The file appears on the desktop.
To view the file contents, double-click its icon. To use contents in a document, drag the file into an open window of an
application that supports drag-and-drop.
Transferring objects
This section explains how some features in ChemBioDraw 13.0 behave when you transfer objects using the Clip-
board or drag and drop from one document to another.
Autoscaling. Objects that you transfer are scaled to match the settings of the destination document.
Bonds. When you copy or move a structure to another document, the structure adopts the new document’s fixed
length value but retains its scaling factor.
For example, assume the fixed length is set to 1.0 cm in a source document. A benzene ring is resized to 200%. The
bond length is then 2.0 cm. In the destination document, assume the fixed Length set to 1.7 cm. When the benzene
ring is pasted into the destination document, the bonds are scaled by a factor to 200% to a final bond length of 3.4 cm.
Atom Labels. Atom labels are scaled the same way as bonds. For example, in the source document, assume the
atom label font size is set to 16 points. One or two atom labels in the source document are resized to 8 points, a ratio
of 8:16 or a scale factor of 0.5. Assume that the destination document has an atom label font size set to 14 points. If
you paste the atom label into the destination document, the font size is scaled by a factor of 0.5 to give a final atom
label font size of 7 points.
Captions. ChemBioDraw 13.0 autoscales captions using the ratio of the fixed length in the destination document to
the fixed length in the source document times the caption font size. The font size of the caption can be any size and is
not related to the setting in the Settings dialog box. This ensures that captions are always in proportion to the bonds
with which they are pasted.
For example, if the source document has a fixed length of 1.0 cm and the destination document has a fixed length of
2.0 cm, and the caption you are pasting is 12 points, then the resulting caption size after autoscaling is (2.0 cm /1.0
cm) x 12 points = 24 points.
Non-bond Objects and Color. The document settings do not affect all objects. Objects such as arrows and boxes,
are scaled to maintain the same proportions to bonds that were in the source document.
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