BKChem
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| Maintainer | Reinis Danne |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| Current version | 0.13.0 |
| operating system | GNU / Linux , macOS and Windows |
| programming language | python |
| category | Graphics software |
| License | GPL |
| German speaking | Yes |
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BKChem is a drawing program for creating chemical formulas . The program is available under the GPL license and was originally developed by Beda Kosata in the Python programming language . The program is, according to the developer a Feierabend project , available today in development and currently in version 0.13.0.
Platforms
BKChem is an open source program and is therefore available as source code . There are compiled program packages for Windows XP , macOS and Linux . Adapted program packages are available in the repositories for many Linux distributions .
Program features
In addition to drawing chemical formulas with reaction arrows , radicals , electron pairs and charges , BKChem also masters templates . The export of the structures to SVG (with optional Cairo support), Open Office , PDF , EPS , MDL Molfile , PNG , SMILES and InChI is supported. Molfile as well as SMILES and InChI (the latter both without stereochemistry) can be selected as import. German , English , French , Czech and Polish are available as language versions .
Start screen
When starting the program, the THC molecule, one of the psychoactive ingredients in cannabis, appears as the start screen .