Appendix F: Chemistry File Formats

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File formats other than ChemDraw may not preserve all of your data. ChemDraw can create many types of items-particularly graphical objects such as boxes and curves-that cannot be saved into chemical file formats.

Other file formats sometimes contain data that cannot be interpreted by ChemDraw. ChemDraw always tries to interpret other file formats so that as much chemically-relevant data is preserved as possible, even if that causes the actual appearance of the file to change when it is saved and reopened.

Most file formats supported by ChemDraw are proprietary or extremely complex and are documented more thoroughly elsewhere. For example, you can find more information about CambridgeSoft's CDX file format at: sdk.cambridgesoft.com