ChemOffice v15 Release Notes PDF

ChemOffice v15
Release Notes
Last Updated: March 17, 2015

Table of Contents
1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION...................................................................................................................................3
2 DISTRIBUTION LIMITATIONS.............................................................................................................................3
3 RELEASE QUALIFICATION ................................................................................................................................3
3.1 SCOPE OF TESTING .........................................................................................................................................3
3.2 TESTING ENVIRONMENT...................................................................................................................................4
4 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ........................................................................................................................4
4.1 PREREQUISITES AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................................................4
4.2 RELEASE INSTALLATION ...................................................................................................................................5
4.3 MANIFEST ......................................................................................................................................................5
5 KEY CAPABILITIES ..........................................................................................................................................12
6 KNOWN ISSUES, LIMITATIONS AND WORKAROUNDS .................................................................................12
7 TECHNICAL SUPPORT .....................................................................................................................................13
ChemOffice v15 Release Notes
1 General Description
ChemOffice 15.0 is the latest release of the ChemOffice suite of personal productivity tools for chemists and biologists.
ChemOffice helps scientists efficiently capture and share their work, visualize and gain a deeper understanding of their
results, and correlate biological activity and other properties with chemical structures.
The release is qualified against the following:
Windows 7 and Windows 8.1

Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013 and Microsoft Office 2011(Mac)
MacOS 10.9 (Mavericks) and MacOS 10.0(Yosemite)
Adobe Acrobat 11
2 Distribution Limitations
N/A
3 Release Qualification
3.1 Scope of Testing
For the ChemOffice 15.0 release, the following testing conditions have been set and executed:
Installations:
o Default mode
o Custom mode
o Side-by-Side compatibility modes
New Features:
o Modernization of Mac platform.
o Support for PM7 computation with MOPAC interface.
o Enhanced lone pair display.
o Support Macintosh Retina display.
o Enhanced support for biopolymers in SD files.
o Support for brackets and repeat groups in biopolymers.
o SD File v3000 format support for File Export.
o Upgrades to interfaces to computation engines.
o Support for latest versions of compute servers.
o ChemDraw ActiveX Enterprise Constant 15.0 compatibility with Desktop E-Notebook 13.0.
o Copy and Paste Structures from ChemDraw as MOL v3000 text.
Third Party Compatibility:
o Operating Systems: Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Mac OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks), Mac OS X 10.10.2
(Yosemite)
o MS Office: 2013 with SP1, 2010, and 2011
o Browsers for ActiveX/Plugins: Internet Explorer 11, 10,and 9, Firefox 28 and above, Chrome 33 and
above, and Safari7(Mac 10.9) and Safari 8(Mac 10.10)
o Calculation Engines for Chem3D: Gaussian 09 Revision-D.01, Mopac 2012, Conflex 7.2B, Autodock
4.2.6, MGL Tools 1.5.4 (for Autodock), msroll.exe (Archaic), and GAMESS 2013.
o Python for ChemScript: 3.2 and 2.5
o Visual C# for ChemScript: 2010
o Visual Studio 2010
Regression Testing:
o One round of full-feature regression testing with ChemOffice Professional on Windows 8.1 (32-bit) and
ChemDraw Professional and ChemDraw Prime on Windows 8.1 (64-bit), Mavericks and Yosemite
systems, respectively.
o Verification of issue fixes and regression testing of related features.
Backward & Forward Compatibility:
o Testing with files created using current and past versions of ChemOffice applications.
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Japanese Localization:
o Testing on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems.
Release Candidate Qualification Testing:
o Digital signature verifications.
o Sanity/Smoke test executions with all packages in mixed environments.
o SciStore download tests.
o Master DVD qualifications.
3.2 Testing Environment

The following table details the testing environments for ChemOffice v15:
Machine Operating Database MSOffice Browser Adobe IIS

Type System Version Version Version
Windows 8.1
IE11, Firefox
Client Professional 32- N/A 2010, 2013 SP1 Acrobat 11 N/A
36, Chrome 41
bit
Windows 8.1
2010 (32-bit), 2013 IE11, Firefox
Client Professional 64- N/A Acrobat 11 N/A
(32-bit) SP1 36, Chrome 41
bit
Windows 7 IE9, IE10, IE11,

Client Professional 32- N/A 2010, 2013 SP1 Firefox 36, Acrobat 11 N/A
bit Chrome 41
Windows 7 IE9, IE10, IE11,

2010 (32-bit), 2013
Client Professional 64- N/A Firefox 36, Acrobat 11 N/A
(32-bit) SP1
bit Chrome 41
Mac OS X 10.9.5 Safari7, Firefox

Client N/A 2011 (14.4.8) Acrobat 11 N/A
(Mavericks) 36
Mac OS X
Safari 8, Firefox
Client 10.10.2 N/A 2011 (14.4.8) Acrobat 11 N/A
36
(Yosemite)
4 Installation Instructions
4.1 Prerequisites and System Requirements
For information about system requirements please refer to the DT-15 Hardware Software Guide (part of this release
package).

4.2 Release Installation

Please note the following when installing ChemOffice v15:
For a clean installation, we recommend running the main executable as Administrator.

The Desktop 15.0 packages can be installed side-by-side with any older Desktop packages.
Desktop E-Notebook 13.0.x works fine using ChemDraw ActiveX Enterprise Constant 15.0.
4.3 Manifest
The Desktop v15.0 release includes the following SKUs and components:
ChemOffice Professional
o * DVD navigation
autorun.inf
ChemOfficeProfessional150.cdd
ChemOfficeProfessional150.exe
CO.ico
lua5.1.dll
lua51.dll
autorun\dat01\ap1.dat

autorun\Icons\3D.ico
autorun\Icons\CD.ico
autorun\Icons\CF.ico
autorun\Icons\CO.ico
autorun\Icons\CS.ico
autorun\Icons\EN.ico
autorun\Icons\FO.ico
autorun\Icons\IN.ico
o * Installation
Windows\activationhelp.html
Windows\Install.exe
Windows\install.ini
Windows\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Windows\QProGIF.ocx
Windows\registerproduct.html
Windows\registerproductemail.html
Windows\registerproductfax.html
Windows\registerredirect.html
Windows\RICHTX32.OCX
Windows\Cambridgesoft\Activation\Activate.exe
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemOffice\CambridgeSoft_ChemDraw_ActiveX_Enterprise_Consta
nt_15.0.msi
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemOffice\CambridgeSoft_ChemOffice_Professional_2015.msi
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemScript\CambridgeSoft_ChemScript_15.0.msi
Windows\Cambridgesoft\Inventory\Common\DLLs\MolServer13.dll
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\VCRedist\vcredist_x86.exe
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\WinInstaller4.5\Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x64.msu
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\WinInstaller4.5\Windows6.0-KB942288-v2-x86.msu
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\WinInstaller4.5\WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x64.exe
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\WinInstaller4.5\WindowsServer2003-KB942288-v4-x86.exe
Windows\ThirdParty\Microsoft\WinInstaller4.5\WindowsXP-KB942288-v3-x86.exe
Windows\ThirdParty\NETInstaller\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
Windows\ThirdParty\Python\python-3.2.2.msi

Windows\ThirdParty\PythonExt\pywin32-217.win32-py3.2.exe
Windows\_images\progress.gif
o Docs\ChemOffice v15 Release Notes.pdf (This document)
o Docs\DT-15 Hardware Software Guide.pdf
ChemDraw Professional (Win/Mac)

o * DVD navigation
autorun.inf
CD.ico
ChemDrawProfessional150.cdd
ChemDrawProfessional150.exe
lua5.1.dll
lua51.dll

o * Installation
Windows\Install.exe
Windows\install.ini
Windows\QProGIF.ocx
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemOffice\CambridgeSoft_ChemDraw_Professional_15.0.msi
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemScript\CambridgeSoft_ChemScript_15.0.msi
Windows\ThirdParty\Python\python-3.2.2.msi
Windows\ThirdParty\PythonExt\pywin32-217.win32-py3.2.exe
ChemDraw Prime (Win/Mac)

o * DVD navigation
autorun.inf
CD.ico

ChemDrawPrime150.cdd
ChemDrawPrime150.exe
lua5.1.dll
lua51.dll

o * Installation
Windows\Install.exe
Windows\install.ini
Windows\QProGIF.ocx
Windows\Cambridgesoft\ChemOffice\CambridgeSoft_ChemDraw_Prime_15.0.msi
ChemDraw Active-X Ent Const (admin/non-admin)

o * Installation
CambridgeSoft_ChemDraw_ActiveX_Enterprise_Constant_15.0.msi
Install.exe
install.ini
MSCOMCTL.OCX
QProGIF.ocx
RICHTX32.OCX
ThirdParty\Microsoft\KB2538243\vcredist_x86.exe
ThirdParty\Microsoft\NETInstaller\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
_images\progress.gif
CDAXEntConstNonAdmin
o *Installation

CambridgeSoft_ChemDraw_ActiveX_Enterprise_Constant_NA_15.0.msi

5 Key Capabilities
N/A
6 Known Issues, Limitations and Workarounds

The following list describes the known issues, limitations, and workarounds for ChemOffice 15:
When a ChemDraw structure is copied from Keynote/Pages/Numbers document and pasted to ChemDraw
Document, it loses the structure information.
Cannot embed Chem3D models in MS PowerPoint 2010 and 2013
The Search SciFinder feature may not provide accurate results for the following query types:
o Query bond types Any, S/A, D/A, and S/D
o Stereo bond types: Dashed, Hashed, Bold, Hollow Wedged, and Wavy
o Multiple bond types: Quadruple, Dative, Tautomeric (Dashed Double), Aromatic (Double Dashed
Double), and Double Either
o Resonance delocalized ring forms
o Chemical Symbols Radical, Lone Pair, Radical Cation, and Radical Anion
o Isotopic labels
o Multiple Group Bracket Repeat Patters Either/Unknown and Head-To-Head
o Multiple Group Brackets crossing multiple bonds or no bonds of the query structure
o Nested bracketed groups
o Anonymous alternative group labels with more than (1) non-H atoms
o Generic atom labels for Exact Search
ChemDraw For Excel > ChemOffice15 context menu is disabled: When you right-click on a chemical name
within a new ChemOffice MS Excel worksheet (Microsoft Excel 2013 , 32 bit), and you select ChemOffice15,
the following options are disabled: Add, Smiles to Molecule, Inchi to Molecule, Select Table, Format as
Formula, Properties, Edit, Show, and Hide. This issue is present in Windows 8.1, 64-bit; MSOffice 2013, 32-
bit.
o For more information about this MSOffice 2013 issue, see:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/813453/enabled-state-does-not-change-
for-context-menu-items-of-excel-2013-add-in-created-with-c-net-and-visual-studio-2012
ChemScript15 does not work properly after installing ChemOffice Professional on a Windows 8.1, 64-bit
machine.
o Workaround: Reboot your machine after installing ChemOffice Professional on a Windows 8.1, 64-bit
system. ChemScript should operate normally.
With systems running Windows 8.1 (64 bit) and Visual Studio C# 2010 Express, the demo (Demo.csproj)
might crash due to a possible error in VS 2010 Express conversion process.
o Workaround: Manually remove the "Demo.exe.config" file from the
"C:\ProgramData\CambridgeSoft\ChemOffice2015\ChemScript\Examples\Demo. This will prevent this
issue from recurring on systems with Visual C# 2010 Express.
For the new ChemDraw Plugin (Macintosh) to function properly, ensure that any older versions of ChemDraw
Plugins present in the location /Library/Internet Plug-Ins is deleted.
There are issues with NMR computations with the default GAMESS installer- 2013-GAMESS-PGI-LINUX-
Blas.msi.
o Workaround: Install 2013-GAMESS-PGI-FAST.msi installer from the GAMESS download page.

7 Technical Support
PerkinElmer Informatics Support supports this software. Please contact your Sales or Services representative for
further information about ChemOffice v15.
www.perkinelmer.com/informatics/support
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The release is qualified against the following:

Windows 7 and Windows 8.1

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3.2 Testing Environment

Machine Operating Database MSOffice Browser Adobe IIS

Windows 7 IE9, IE10, IE11,

Windows 7 IE9, IE10, IE11,

Mac OS X 10.9.5 Safari7, Firefox

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4.2 Release Installation

For a clean installation, we recommend running the main executable as Administrator.

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ChemDraw Professional (Win/Mac)

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ChemDraw Prime (Win/Mac)

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ChemDraw Active-X Ent Const (admin/non-admin)

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6 Known Issues, Limitations and Workarounds

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