Portable notebooks
- To: mathgroup at yoda.physics.unc.edu
- Subject: Portable notebooks
- From: Simon Chandler <simonc at hpcpbla.bri.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 18:27:07 +0100
Hi MathGroup, The portability of Mathematica packages between platforms is a superb feature. However, I have some questions about making Mathematica notebooks portable. ^^^^^^^^^ My notebooks contain diagrams to explain my calculations. I currently have a Macintosh front-end so the diagrams are pasted-in PICT's from MacDraw. However, this is only a stop-gap system since I am waiting for the release of a full notebook front-end for an HP workstation. I have just realised that when the workstation front-end arrives my PICT's will not be correctly displayed on screen so my notebooks will loose their diagrams. Similarly, I am not able to share my notebooks with MS-DOS based Mathematica front-ends since they too will not understand the PICT's. Can anyone suggest a way of making notebooks containing diagrams fully portable? For example, is it possible to generate an encapsulated PostScript diagram in a drawing package, paste the PostScript text into the notebook and have the front-end render it? When I try this with a file created by FreeHand I am told by the mac front-end that the PostScript contained an error - what is wrong ? Any ideas ? Simon Chandler Hewlett-Packard Ltd (CPB) Filton Road Stoke Gifford Bristol BS12 6QZ Tel: 0272 228109 Fax: 0272 236091 email: simonc%hpcpbla.bri.hp.com at hplb.hpl.hp.com