>It's not clear to me if many publishers yet have a coherent strategy >regarding interactive figures.
I have had around five publishers accept the concept of Jmol-enhanced interactive figures (the latest being Science). However, it has to be said that the first publisher to do so (about 4 years ago), subsequently re-factored their journal production system, and in the process all the existing figures broke (it took more than a month to reactivate them). Another two publishers have refused to accept such interactive figures, citing incompatibilities with their own journal production systems (I will not go into details, but its an interesting story). So long term stability certainly is a factor in the equation. About 3D PDF, it is generally accepted that the regular form of PDF is a very poor medium for preserving <<data>>, and there is no reason to suppose that the 3D version has solved those issues >PDF will again appeal because it offers a >single approach across different domains. Jmol is superb at molecular and >crystal structure visualizations, but of limited applicability elsewhere >(though the discussions about generalising it within the SAGE community >are interesting and relevant); and general scientific publishers may be >nervous about the prospect of having to support an ever-growing range of >software applicationss for different disciplines. I do not believe that the publishers regard Jmol as "supported", but of course it has to be acknowledged that Jmol depends on underlying Java, and its difficult to see how that might have a future mapped in decades rather than years. I presume however that it would not be difficult to reparse the Jmol syntax into new forms if the underlying data is readily identified. Again, its doubtful that 3D PDF could be refactored in such a way. -- +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); FOAF: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/rzepa.xrdf Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list Jmol-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
