Re: help: cooperating MMA to the Web
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg3805] Re: help: cooperating MMA to the Web
- From: Dr Phillip Kent <p.kent at ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 00:55:08 -0400
- Organization: Imperial College
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
u8222015 at cc.nctu.edu.tw (Spencer Yu) wrote: > >Dear friends, > We are a CAI group in a math department. Can anyone provide help, tips, > or exchange expreiences about communicating Mathematica to the Web? > > The most crucial problem is to display Mathematica generated PostScript > plots to the WWW (on the fly). I am not too sure how to do it, should I > use some utility to do the format conversion (via some unix shell script) > , or try to interact with the Front End, or do something about Netscape's > plug-in?? > Thank you very much. > > ps: the utility to conver PS to JPG is unheard of, to me. The only > thing I know to do such thing is Mathematica's front End's > "Save as".... > Check out the WWWMath discussion group pages at http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/wwwmath/ or use the alias http://www.wolfram.com/WWWMath.html Converting Mathematica graphics on-the-fly is not hard to do (at least in Unix!). Look at in particular the item about "mmaeval". ----------------------------------+---------------------------- Dr Phillip Kent | tel: +44 (0)171 594 8503 The METRIC Project | fax: +44 (0)171 594 8517 Mathematics Department | Imperial College | p.kent at ic.ac.uk London SW7 2BZ, U.K. | http://metric.ma.ic.ac.uk/ ----------------------------------+---------------------------- "It's no good waiting for the funny bits" - Aristophanes ==== [MESSAGE SEPARATOR] ====