Re: Two problems with Mathematica 4 on G4
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- Subject: [mg26038] Re: [mg25957] Two problems with Mathematica 4 on G4
- From: Alan <kd7cyb at mac.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 04:07:47 -0500 (EST)
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Try starting Mathematica while holding the option-shift keys down as it stars. This
resets all your settings to default.
Alan
Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> 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
> JAPAN
>
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