This display does tend to take over the whole desktop rather than use floating menu toolbars, but you can move the toolbars and widgets around to reduce the amount of real estate used, however I found that they popped back to the default positions when I resized the window. Simply double-clicking on the application icon starts up the application and the user is presented with a user interface containing all the ChemDoodle components.

The ChemDoodle folder contains the application, a couple of resources and a 154 page user manual, and a useful keyboard shortcut guide. The current price is $59.95 which is a fraction of the price of some of the competitors, and there are site licenses available. When you first start ChemDoodle you are prompted for a license code, but it can be used for a 30 day trial with some limitations. On a Mac installation is trivial, simply drag the ChemDoodle folder into the Applications folder. It is a java application and is available for Mac OS X 10.5 and higher, Linux and Windows. ChemDoodle 3.0 from iChemLabs is the latest update of a chemical drawing package that also provides for support for many other types of chemical data such as tlc plates, spectra, and molecular properties.

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