Re: Exporting formulae as GIFs
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- Subject: [mg22809] Re: Exporting formulae as GIFs
- From: "Atul Sharma" <atulksharma at yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:01:13 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks for the pointer. I was hoping for something more specific if possible. In preparing a series of manuscripts for publication, I've been exporting formulae as "EPS" format (or EPSTIFF) and then inserting them into a Word (or TeX) document. This works very well for the postscript output, as the eps files look exactly like what's on the screen (the TIFF previews are often weirdly trucated though). When I save individual formulae as bitmaps (Save Selection As Bitmap), I also get images that are true to what I see in the notebook in terms of line breaks. Unfortunately, the 72dpi resolution is not very legible and I haven't been able to increase the resolution, perhaps because I haven't yet found the correct options to adjust the bitmap resolution for the menu command. While the eps output is lovely for publication purposes, I would like to do the same with bitmap or gif images, mostly so that I can pass the manuscript past my co-authors in electronic form (a step that necessarily comes before sharing it with publishers :) The problem is that the exported images don't bear much relationship to what's on the screen in the Mathematica notebook. When I export them the way you recommend, line breaks are inserted about half way across the page. In the Option Inspector, I have tried adjusting PageWidth , LinebreakWithin, and "PageWidth" (ExportTypesetOptions) options. I've even tried experimenting with the penalty function in LinebreakAdjustments and specifying different values for ImageSize, without much luck. The same thing happens in 640 x 480, 800 x 600 etc. screen modes It's only a minor problem, I know, since the postscript output works well. Still, there must be a simpler alternative than the suggestion from WRI technical support to oblige my colleagues to download MathReader or hunt down a postscript printer just to be able to print a legible copy of a manuscript that will inevitably undergo many revisions. Thanks again for this and ther good advice. A. Sharma -------------------------------------------------- Atul Sharma MD, FRCP(C) Pediatric Nephrologist, McGill University/Montreal Children's Hospital P.J. Hinton wrote in message <8bhvgh$no0 at smc.vnet.net>... >In article <8bfepj$iec at smc.vnet.net>, > "Atul Sharma" <atulksharma at yahoo.com> writes: > >> When I stumbled across this in the archive, I was delighted. Unfortunately, >> I had no luck using it. >> And since I have no idea what this code is doing (or why the number of >> seconds since Jan. 1, 1901 would even be called as part of a window size >> routine!!), I thought I would ask if anyone else had better luck with it? Or >> whether the problem of GIF formulae being cut off after the first 4" had >> another solution. Since this is the presumably the same method used for the >> dynamic display of formulae at the Integrator web site, surely there is a >> solution. > >If you are wanting to export individual formulae, you can use >an function call like this: > >Export[<destination filename>, ToBoxes[<your expresion here>], "GIF"] > >as is documented in: > >http://documents.wolfram.com/v4/MainBook/1_11/S1.11.5.html > >-- >P.J. Hinton >Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com >Wolfram Research, Inc. >Disclaimer: Opinions expressed herein are those of the author alone. >