Re: How does MathReader work?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg43345] Re: How does MathReader work?
- From: "Urijah Kaplan" <uak at sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 07:13:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
- References: <bicgsd$212$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
As MathReader doesn't include the Mathematica kernel, I don't see how it can possibly do any of the things you want. (Except perhaps locking the notebook.) As for .nb size issues, I have found that using WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com/rar_archiver.htm available for just about all platforms) at the highest compression settings can compress image and animation heavy notebooks more than 20:1. --Urijah Kaplan "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> wrote in message news:bicgsd$212$1 at smc.vnet.net... > Dear MathGroup and WRI, > > I am interesting in knowing more precisely what can be done with MathReader. > I suspect that it doesn't do what I really want but the documentation is a > bit vague. > > This is what I would like MathReader to do: > > 1) The MathReader user should be able to open a Mathematica notebook with > all output and graphics deleted and then evaluate the notebook and generate > the graphics and animation. > > 2) The MathReader user should be able to install third party packages and > applications, which could be utilized by the notebooks he reads. > > 3) But the MathReader user could not edit or change any notebook. He could > not type in his own statements. He would be strictly limited to evaluating > notebooks created by full Mathematica owners. > > If MathReader cannot evaluate a notebook, then all the graphics, animation > and traditional form output must be embedded and this means that for all > practical purposes the notebooks are too large for routine transmission. In > that case MathReader can only be used for trivial purposes. > > David Park > djmp at earthlink.net > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ >