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2D chemical drawing, publishing and informatics software for scientists and students.

What's new in 12.11.0

Executive Summary Version 12.11.0 is a feature update for ChemDoodle 2D. Major features include a function to generate text descriptions of your figures, a fully native file chooser, improved MRV file support, a new recent colors color chooser pane and more! Additions 1. Generate text descriptions of selected content (also known a "alt" text). The algorithm attempts to create an accurate, thorough, instantaneous, consistent, canonical text description of chemical figures based on IUPAC naming rules. No LLM or AI use. Individual molecules, multiple molecules, and reactions are supported. Please see section 13.18 of the user guide for more information. 2. A brand new, custom, native file chooser has been built and included for Windows, macOS and Linux which will enable you to use all of the features of the system file chooser in ChemDoodle. Issues regarding accessibility tools on macOS do not affect this new file chooser. 3. Added a new style to render implicit hydrogens in the defined hydrogen element color (including subscript), as opposed to the color of the heteroatom it is attached to. 4. Added a Content>Highlight menu item so you may add an accelerator to it. 5. Improved MRV file support including: input of abbreviations from Sgroups, removing markup from text, bond forming MEflows are supported, multiline text is correctly rendered, added an option to input lone pair attributes, and support for R group numbers. 6. SVGs are now added to the system clipboard when you copy in ChemDoodle. You may disallow SVG in the Settings window under the Clipboard tab. 7. A new interfa...

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