Test Document for Electronic
Medicinal Chemistry Journal
The Directors
Electronic Journals Ltd.
218 Eastfield road
Portsmouth
PO4 9EW
United Kingdom.
Accepted for publication: 12/6/96
Abstract
The advent of electronic or ‘virtual’ publishing offers increasing advantages over
hard-copy publication, including speed, economy, use of colour and the potential for
interactivity. New PDF formats mean that electronic documents can attain a level of
presentation equal to those expected from traditional hard-copy methods.
Introduction
This is the test document for Electronic Medicinal Chemistry. As a potential author
or subscriber, we hope you are pleased with the appearance of this document and the
method of dissemination we have chosen for this journal. The appearance of many
our published manuscripts will be similar to this document. It is envisaged that many
more journals will follow, and Electronic Journals Ltd. hopes to provide through its
customised subscription software a first-class information dissemination service for
scientific and commercial articles. Articles are charged and downloaded individu-
ally, therefore providing a very flexible and cheap method of publication. Subscrib-
ers can search for abstracts using dates of publication or any word. It is also impor-
tant to realise that your subscription is to Electronic Journals Ltd., not to a particular
journal, so you can download anything you want from our list of articles and reports
provided your account can cover the prices charged.
Portable Document Format and plug-in Technology
This document is formatted as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, after origi-
nally being desktop published using Adobe Pagemaker 6.0. PDF has a more sophis-
ticated style of presentation when compared to Hyper-Text Mark-up Language
(HTML). Graphics are also well-presented using this format (see Fig. 1.).
Future versions of software capable of reading PDF documents (Adobe Amber or
Acrobat 3.0) will run as plug-ins to the main World-Wide-Web browsers Netscape
2.0 and Microsof