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Re: Help!! - Problems printing to Adobe Acrobat

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  • Subject: [mg16254] Re: Help!! - Problems printing to Adobe Acrobat
  • From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker701 at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 00:41:18 -0500
  • Organization: Morgan State University: COMSARE
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Selwyn Hollis wrote:
> 
> What platform are you on?

PC running Windows 95

> Your problem #1 sounds like the good old Mac OS 8 Appearance extension
> bug. (http://www.wolfram.com/support/Systems/Macintosh/FE/)
> 
> I have never had any luck using PDFWriter with Mathematica. Try simply
> printing to a file and then process the file with Acrobat Distiller.
> Also, Distiller needs to be told where Mathematica hides its Type 1
> fonts.

Thanks.  Printing to a postscript file then converting that
to pdf worked fine.  


> 
> Lawrence Walker wrote:
> 
> > Group:
> >
> > This is yet another graphics import/export problem I am
> > having with Mathematica.
> >
> > After I printed a notebook containing a list density plot to
> > Adobe's PDFWriter, two things are problematic:
> >
> > 1) The fonts runs into each other.  For example, a
> > function's left bracket will be pushed a little to the left,
> > overlapping the previous letters.  There were a sprinkling
> > of characters or symbols on top of each other throughout the
> > PDF document.
> >
> > A work-around was to set the Printing Style Environment to
> > "Working" instead of "Printout".
> >
> > 2) The density list plot was completely blackened except for
> > the frame and tick labels.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Lawrence
> >
> > --
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >      (\___/)     The fear of the LORD is the beginning of
> >      (o\ /o)     wisdom: a good understanding have all they
> >     /|:.V.:|\    that do his commandments: his praise
> >     \\::::://    endureth for ever.              Psa 111:10
> > -----`"" ""`------------------------------------------------
> >         Lawrence A. Walker Jr., M.Eng./Ph.D. Candidate
> >                    Morgan State University
> >           Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering
> >  COMSARE (Center Of Microwave/Satellite And RF Engineering)
> >            Rm: 306-Schafer     Phone: (443)885-1453
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Dr. Selwyn Hollis
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> Armstrong Atlantic State University
> Savannah, GA 31419 USA
> <http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis/>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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     (\___/)     The fear of the LORD is the beginning of    
     (o\ /o)     wisdom: a good understanding have all they  
    /|:.V.:|\    that do his commandments: his praise        
    \\::::://    endureth for ever.              Psa 111:10  
-----`"" ""`------------------------------------------------
        Lawrence A. Walker Jr., M.Eng./Ph.D. Candidate      
                   Morgan State University                  
          Clarence M. Mitchell School of Engineering        
 COMSARE (Center Of Microwave/Satellite And RF Engineering) 
           Rm: 306-Schafer     Phone: (443)885-1453        
------------------------------------------------------------


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