Math & Science ⇒ Chemscheme and Chemdraw 16.0

[MissingPhoton]

Hello everyone.

I do hope you're all well. I'm fighting with a specific problem that I wonder whether anyone else has come across.

I'm using Chemscheme to help in compiling my thesis and have stumbled across an alarming issue. Chemscheme will find and replace the TMP markers in .eps files generated from Chemdraw 14 or 15, but wont find or replace the markers in schemes generated from Chemdraw 16. (I've noticed a few other CD16 bugs- like it will refuse to export pdfs that are cropped to the area containing graphics also.)

The CD 16 fig is 'ThiolMaleimide.eps' and the CD 14/15 fid is 'CyAZIDES.eps'

I would love to know whether anyone has had similar difficulties and notably whether anyone has any advice?

Thanks so much!


Preamble attached:

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\documentclass[12pt, oneside]{Thesis} 

\graphicspath{{Pictures/}}

\usepackage[square, numbers, comma, sort&compress, super]{natbib}
\hypersetup{urlcolor=black, colorlinks=true}
\title{\ttitle} 
% 
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{glossaries}
\usepackage[version=3]{mhchem}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage[font=footnotesize,labelfont=bf]{caption}
\usepackage{chemscheme}
\usepackage[runs=3]{auto-pst-pdf}
\renewcommand*{\schemerefformat}{\footnotesize}
\usepackage[hang]{footmisc}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{cleveref}

[cgnieder]

If you open both files with a text editor and search them for the string TMP then you'll find the string in CyAZIDES.eps but not in Thiolmaleimide.eps. The same is true for psfrag (which is used by chemscheme for the replacement task).

The reason is probably that ChemDraw 16 uses another way to safe text to the EPS. Indeed, the text is not safed as text anymore. My only advice is to downgrade ChemDraw.