Working with Color

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With the color capabilities of ChemDraw, you can create full color presentations of your chemical drawings to appear on your monitor, print on a color printer, or create 35mm slides using a film printer.

Most computers can display any of 16 million colors, but the number of colors that can appear at any one time may be limited by the particular monitor and display card installed in your computer.

In ChemDraw, you can choose from a palette consisting of a Background Color, a Foreground Color, and up to twenty additional colors for any given drawing. A palette is stored in every document and Stationery Pad. You can use Stationery Pads to create a series of documents with the same color scheme.

Using color you can:

• Color atoms and bonds in a mostly black-on-white drawing to highlight areas of interest.
• Color parts of a structure in a reaction scheme to indicate where starting materials end up in the products of a complicated mechanism.
• Use colored boxes and circles to highlight atoms or molecules.
• Create slides that are easier to view by using light objects on a dark background.