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Re: help: cooperating MMA to the Web

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• 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".

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