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Re: Mathematica exports curves in pieces to Illustrator

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• Subject: [mg45376] Re: Mathematica exports curves in pieces to Illustrator
• From: AES/newspost <siegman at stanford.edu>
• Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 04:56:08 -0500 (EST)
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> I'm afraid that's something you'll just have to live with. However, by 
> clicking and dragging, you can usually select many segments at once. 
> Once you've got them all selected, you can them "group" them.

> Why this is so, can be easily understood, since the M's plot
> constitutes from final line segments. To see this, pick out 
> the Out Graphics argument and look into it with FullForm command.

First paragraph may be correct -- but (I suspect) only because, for 
whatever reason, "that's the way Mathematica does it".  I'm skeptical 
that Mathematica *has* to do it that way -- that is, has to break a 
single curve into some number of smaller sub-segments -- for any major 
technical reason; and it would be nicer if it didn't do it that way.

Are there technical reasons (maximum number of points per Line[], or 
something like that) why Mathematica has to do it this way?

Also, if you Select first segment A, then segment B, of a segmented 
curve of this type after transferring it from Mathematica to Illustrator, the 
curve appears continuous.  Does this mean that the final point of 
segment A and the initial point of segment B are the same? -- or just 
very close to each other?  Or does the EPS file somehow contain enough 
data that Illustrastor knows how to fill in the gap between last A and 
first B points?

• References:
  • Mathematica exports curves in pieces to Illustrator
    • From: Mattiephly@hotmail.com (Ralph Reinbeck)