For your Chemists: Chem4Word

[mikewilliams]

Hi All,

 

Just to let you know that we have released Beta 10 of Chem4Word Version 3.

 

What is Chem4Word?

• The Chemistry AddIn for Microsoft Word allows you to draw and import chemical structures into word documents in high quality.
  
• It is free and open source. More details on our main web site https://www.chem4word.co.uk/
  

 

Where can I get it?

• Head to our releases page on GitHub at https://github.com/Chem4Word/Version3/releases/latest, download Chem4Word-Setup.exe to install the prerequisites and install Chem4Word.
  

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

We are a small team who donate some of our free time to this project and we will do our best to get back to you in a reasonable time.

 

Regards

/Mike Williams

(Lead Developer at Chem4Word)

[mikewilliams]

Please be advised that at the time of writing this is a beta.

 

We do however expect to release the "Gold" version in January next year.

[mikewilliams]

We have been working with one system manager to get a silent install working.

 

With logging

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.10.Beta.10.msi /l*v setup10.log WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

Without logging

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.10.Beta.10.msi WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

Change "variables" as appropriate

[6Foot2]

I have tested and deployed the current (beta) version. There were a few slight issues that I couldn't figure out, but they were soon sorted after a quick E-Mail exchange with Mike.

 

I didn't have Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Microsoft Office - which was another stumbling block for a minute or two.

 

Now successfully deploying the package via SCCM with the following command:

 

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.10.Beta.10.msi WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

[WINWORDVERSION=2013 because that is the version of Office that we currently deploy to our workstations/laptops]

 

 

Edit: Beaten to it by Mike.

[mikewilliams]

Please remember we are a VERY small team of three people.

 

We work on this project in our free time.

 

We endeavor to respond to queries as quick as we can.

 

/Mike

[mikewilliams]

We have deployed Release 1 to our download servers, please upgrade to that.

[6Foot2]

I have just been trying to update our deployment of Chem4Word via SCCM. I cannot get the new EXE to deploy silently (The last deployment was via MSI)

 

I have tried:

 

Chem4Word-Setup.exe WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

And:

 

Chem4Word-Setup.exe WINWORDVERSION=2013 /q

 

When I run the SCCM script I am met with:

 

 

Thanks.

 

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Edit: I captured the Chem4Word MSI that was downloaded when I clicked 'Install' The SCCM script is now running as expected. It looks like this:

 

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.14.Release.1.msi WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

Thanks.

Edited February 10, 2018 by 6Foot2
I found the MSI! :)

[mikewilliams]

Hi,

The setup exe is not an installer, it is our own custom program. It is not designed to run silent. It's job is to check the pre requisites, then download and run the msi.

 

As you have found it is only the msi which is able to run silent using the command line above.

 

Hope you are enjoying using Chem4Word.

 

/Mike

[Arthur]

@DaveP. A download link to the .msi can be found in the source code for the Chem4Word setup program.

 

For v3.0.14 this is on line 37.

 

https://github.com/Chem4Word/Version3/blob/master/src/Installer/Chem4WordSetup/Setup.cs

 

https://www.chem4word.co.uk/files3/Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.14.Release.1.msi

 

On the line below that is a link to the Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime (VSTO) prerequisite.

 

https://www.chem4word.co.uk/files3/vstor_redist.exe

 

This can be deployed silently with the following commands.

 

Install

vstor_redist.exe /q /norestart

 

Uninstall

msiexec.exe /x {7C0242A3-8B66-35D1-9FE0-13B426ACB609} /qn

[Ditto]

Appreciate you are a small team, but I'm interested to know what you think the steps would be to port this to a GSuite for Education/Chromebook environment - are we talking starting from scratch?

[mikewilliams]

Appreciate you are a small team, but I'm interested to know what you think the steps would be to port this to a GSuite for Education/Chromebook environment - are we talking starting from scratch?

 

Hi Graham,

 

a) We simply do not have the time to undertake this.

b) The Add-In relies heavily on Office VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office) and is heavy on MS Propretry COM technologies.

 

So I would guess that it's a total re-wrtite from scratch.

 

Feel free to examine our source code on https://github.com/Chem4Word/Version3, which may give you some help if you want to get someone else to accomplish this task.

 

/Mike Williams

Lead Developer (Chem4Word)

[mikewilliams]

We have deployed Release 1 to our download servers, please upgrade to that.

 

We have deployed Release 3 to our download servers, please upgrade to that.

Prefered method of updating is via our Automatic Updates system

 

If you need to deploy via SCCM please copy msi from https://www.chem4word.co.uk/files3/Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.16.Release.3.msi

Then install it with

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.14.Release.1.msi WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

 

Substituting your word version number as appropriate.

 

/Mike Williams

Lead Developer (Chem4Word)

[mikewilliams]

We have deployed Release 6 to our download servers, please upgrade to that.

Prefered method of updating is via our Automatic Updates system.

 

If you need to deploy via SCCM please copy msi from our web server here

Then install it with

 

msiexec /i Chem4Word-Setup.3.0.19.Release.6.msi WINWORDVERSION=2013 /quiet

Substituting your word version number as appropriate.

 

/Mike Williams

Lead Developer (Chem4Word)

[mikewilliams]

Hi All,

 

Just to let you know that Chem4Word Version 3.2 Release 8 is live.

 

What is Chem4Word?

The Chemistry AddIn for Microsoft Word allows you to draw and import chemical structures into word documents in high quality.

It is free and open source. More details on our main web site https://www.chem4word.co.uk/

You can read our latest news at https://www.chem4word.co.uk/category/news/

 

We are also working hard on Version 3.3 which will allow you to store multiple libraries of structures stored on your computer.

These can be easily shared with friends or colleagues.

https://www.chem4word.co.uk/2023/06/14/improved-chemical-libraries-are-coming-to-chem4word/

 

Where can I get Chem4Word?

You can get it via or download page at https://www.chem4word.co.uk/download/

This wil take you to our releases page on GitHub, download Chem4Word-Setup.exe to install the prerequisites and install Chem4Word.

 

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

We are a small team who donate some of our free time to this project and we will do our best to get back to you in a reasonable time.

 

Regards

/Mike Williams

(Lead Developer at Chem4Word)

[mikewilliams]

Quick reminder that you all should be using the latest version of Chem4Word.

 

Versions 3.0 and 3.1 are no longer supported by us.

 

We recomend upgrading to V3.3.8 which can be downloaded from here...

https://github.com/Chem4Word/Version3-3/releases

 

/Mike Williams

Lead Developer (Chem4Word) - https://www.chem4word.co.uk/

Edited September 16, 2024 by mikewilliams

[mikewilliams]

Just a quick heads up.

We will shortly be releasing V3.3.16 which includes support for reactions.

See our blog post here coming-soon-improvements-to-reactions

 

 

/Mike Williams

Lead Developer (Chem4Word) - https://www.chem4word.co.uk/

Edited June 9 by mikewilliams