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RE: Re: Is there any productive way to use Mathematica + pdfLaTeX?

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• Subject: [mg47472] RE: [mg47434] Re: Is there any productive way to use Mathematica + pdfLaTeX?
• From: "Owen, HL (Hywel)" <H.L.Owen at dl.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 06:26:23 -0400 (EDT)
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Our group messed around for a while trying to get as simple a LaTeX
installation on Windows as possible. We finally settled on MikTeX/WinEdt.
WinEdt costs a few tens of dollars per license, but is well worth it (IMHO)
to avoid hassle. An installation guide is given at:

http://www.astec.ac.uk/ap/software/latex.html

There is also a guide to how to get .eps files into your documents - the
procedure is to insert them into the .tex file, then do:

.tex -> .dvi -> .pdf

To get your Mathematica plots into yout LaTeX documents, export them as
.eps.

It's about the simplest procedure we've found. If there is a simpler/better
tool for .tex editing out there, we''d like to hear about it!

Hywel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ankowar at yahoo.com [mailto:ankowar at yahoo.com]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Sent: 12 April 2004 08:45
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg47472] [mg47434] Re: Is there any productive way to use 
> Mathematica +
> pdfLaTeX?
> 
> 
> inacioglb at yahoo.com (Inacio Guerberoff) wrote in message 
> news:<c4g69g$qtu$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> > Hello
> > 
> > I use Mathematica 5.0 and would like to know if there is 
> any easy and
> > fast way to include Mathematica plots in pdfLaTeX 
> documents. The way I
> > know is to make a Export[graph,"file.pdf"] for example, and then
> > include in the tex file the following:
> > 
> > \includegraphics{file.pdf}
> > 
> > The problem is that the PDF generated by Mathematica is 
> weird, because
> > the plot is on the bottom-left of the page, and the same 
> thing happens
> > in the document. I think what would solve the problem would be a
> > function like PlotPDF[Plot[x^2,{x,0,2}],"file.pdf"]. This function
> > saves the plot in "file.pdf", but in a way that you can insert it
> > directly in a LaTeX document.
> > 
> > Anyone has tips on this task?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Inacio Guerberoff
> 
> This is what I do to get pdf version of a notebook on windows. 
> Choose File->Print, check the box "Print to File". 
> Mathematica produces a .prn
> file. Open the file with Ghostscript (I use gsview 4.6). Choose
> File->Convert->pdfwrite and appropriate resolution.
> This works also on linux if you produce .ps file.
> 
> Hope it helps,
> 
> AK
>