Re: How does MathReader work?
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- Subject: [mg43373] Re: How does MathReader work?
- From: "John Jowett" <John.Jowett at cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:05:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: CERN
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In fact you don't need to go outside Mathematica to reduce notebook size by removing the image cache data. See http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/interface/notebooks/removeimagecache.html John Jowett "Eckhard Hennig" <aidev at n-o-s-p-a-m.kaninkolo.de> wrote in message news:bifgjj$k1l$1 at smc.vnet.net... > "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:bicgsd$212$1 at smc.vnet.net... > > > 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. > > Hi David, > > it's mainly the bitmap image and cell cache data that makes Mathematica > notebooks too fat for transmission. However, this data can be safely > discarded before transmitting a notebook file because it will be restored > automatically by the Mathematica frontend upon loading the notebook. You can > use Tim Wichmann's rmnbcache tool to strip cache data from notebooks (see > the following URL). > > http://www.itwm.fhg.de/as/asemployees/wichmann/nbcache.html > > Best regards, > > Eckhard > > -- > Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Hennig > www.kaninkolo.de/ai > aidev \at kaninkolo \dot de > >