Re: Two problems with Mathematica 4 on G4
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- Subject: [mg26005] Re: [mg25957] Two problems with Mathematica 4 on G4
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 02:09:52 -0500 (EST)
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on 00.11.14 5:46 PM, Erkki Kurenniemi at kurtsi at kurtsi.pp.fi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have two disturbing problems with Mathematica 4.0 under Mac OS 9.0.4
>
> 1. The background to Text primitives in 2D graphics is always white, extending
> to the right edge of the whole picture. Especially, the help browser
> example (S.2.9.16)
>
> Show[Graphics[{{GrayLevel[0.5], Rectangle[{0, 0}, {1, 1}]},
> Text["Some text", {0.5, 0.5}]}]]
>
> does not work as advertised when I evaluate it. A problem with Mac Postscript
> interpreter or what? If so, is there any way around? I need text fields
> with transparent backgrounds. (S.2.9.16 says: "By default the text is just put
> straight on top of whatever graphics have already been drawn." )
>
> 2. Images pasted to notebooks from the clipboard disappear when the notebook
> is transferred to Windows. Typically, I copy from Photoshop. What cause,
> any workaround?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Erkki Kurenniemi
>
>
I am running Mathematica 4.01 on G4 cube under MacOS 9.04 and do not have
your problem. In particular the example you quote looks exactly as it should
so the problem must be specific to your particular setup and not a
Mathematica 4 on G4 problem, as you describe it.
As for you second question: I think the most reliable approach is to paste
the image, use the "Convert To" submenu in the "Cell" menu to convert it to
InputForm and then evaluate it again on the other platform. I use this a lot
and it works without a glitch, at least for relatively simple images (I have
not tried it with very huge ones).
--
Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
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