Re: Printing Mathematica in MSWord
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- Subject: [mg23204] Re: Printing Mathematica in MSWord
- From: "Atul Sharma" <atulksharma at yahoo.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:12:10 -0400 (EDT)
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I apologize for recycling an earlier post, but this question has appeared several times recently. Having had a very frustrating time myself, I appreciated the suggestions from this forum, which I summarize below. If these all seem too complicated, you may find that installing MathReader (free from WRI) on your school computer will allow you to print Mathematica notebooks directly. I am assuming you require publication quality formulae, so that the built in Export as GIF image function isn't sufficient. Exporting formulae: 1) EPS format: If you have access to a postscript printer at school, you can simply save the equations in encapsulated postscript (eps) format (Save Selection As: EPS) and insert them into your Word document (Insert:Picture:From File). EPS figures are not saved with a preview (although you can export them with a TIFF preview in Mathematica 4.0, Export[.."EPSTIF"], or add a preview using Ghostscript/Ghostview). Consequently, you won't be able to visualize the formulae in your word document, but they will be identified by placeholders, and they will print to a postscript printer.You will need to likely embed the Math Fonts in the eps document, and a package from MathSource allows you to do this (emmathfnt by Paul Hinton). If you don't have access to a postscript printer at school, you can use Ghostscript/Ghostview at home (available free from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/get550.html ) to translate the postscript file to pdf format. The pdf document can then be printed with Acrobat Reader. Even bitmap fonts (which are rendered poorly on the screen by Acrobat Reader) will print fine on a standard printer. Simply take your Word document with the eps formulae and print it to a file using any postscript printer driver that comes with Windows (HP ILaserjet 4/4M or Apple Laserwriter NT II drivers work fine). Open with GS/GV and convert to pdf format by printing to a file after selecting the pdfwrite printer. 2) GIFs: An even easier solution is to export formulae as bitmap or gif mages (or save selection as bitmap, and then convert to gif if you wish using MS PhotoEditor or equivalent). These can be inserted into your Word document as pictures. A bug in the procedure leads to a rather curious truncation of the resulting images, and a recent thread saw two palettes which modify Export to allow you to produce gif images without the annoying ine breaks. Either allows you to export the formulae for a web page or on-line viewing in a word processor document. Unfortunately, the gifs are screen resolution only, which is fine for on-screen viewing but not optimal for printouts. I've had little success improving on this from within Mathematica. I had more luck with converting EPS format (resolution independent) to higher resolution GIFs using other software, such as ImageMagik (also freely available). There are several different ways to do this, all roundabout but effective. I found that I could most easily convert the eps formulae to ppm using the ppmraw printer driver in GS/GV. ImageMagik will convert this to GIFs or BMPs or JPGs, as you wish, with at least 300 dpi resolution. These print nicely. Having said this, my preferred solution is to use Adobe Acrobat Distiller to create both postscript and pdf versions of the document, which can be viewed and printed by anyone with Acrobat reader. The math fonts will need to be embedded. Paul Hinton's package in MathSource (emmathfnt ) will allow you to do so in ps documents. Distiller can also be set up to embed the math fonts (type 1 postscript) into .ps and .pdf formats. I only recently discovered the Acrobat distiller option, and I really find it very convenient, though admittedly not free. Since Acrobat Reader is ubiquitous, this (in my mind) is the best option to ensure that graphics, fonts, and typesetting appear exactly as intended. The quality of the printout is also very nice, even without a postscript printer The educational/student discount for Acrobat 4.0 is under $100 Cnd (about 29 cents US, but that's another story), which personally was worth it to avoid the rather indirect solutions outlined above. Hope that helps. A. Sharma -- -------------------------------------------------- Atul Sharma MD, FRCP(C) Pediatric Nephrologist, McGill University/Montreal Children's Hospital email: atulksharma at yahoo.com "Gary Reich" <ramkicker at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:8dnvjd$hu0 at smc.vnet.net... > I am currently writing my senior project and use Mathematica 3.0 to > write equations and such for it. Due to the length of my project I > need to print out my project in the computer lab in my school, but none > of the computers there have mathematica on them. When I try to print > my project, the equations are very distorted. What can I do to print > the equations with out flaws in the lab? > > Sincerely, > Gary Reich > > > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ > Before you buy. >