Re: Printing Rotated Text from a Mac
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- Subject: [mg48975] Re: Printing Rotated Text from a Mac
- From: stagat at mrcsb.com (Bob Stagat)
- Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 02:58:55 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Well, it looks like I get to answer my own question. I contacted Wolfram and I got this nice response... Hello Bob, Thank you for the email. Many customers have complained about that, with Mathematica 5, text no longer rotates when printed. The default value "Automatic" for the option GraphicsPrintingFormat was changed, which causes this problem. The solution is to do the following: 1) Go to the menu Mathematica > Preferences. 2) Choose "global" under the "Show option values for" menu 3) Go to Notebook Options > Printing Options > Printing Options > GraphicsPrintingFormat 4) Choose "DownloadPostscript" Now you should be able to print because it will use the printer's postscript renderer to read the Mathematica graphs. Also, make sure your *notebook* does not have a non-default value for GraphicsPrintingFormat. Choose "notebook" under "Show Options values for " menu, then go to Notebook Options > Printing Options > Printing Options > GraphicsPrintingFormat. If it's using the default value, then there should not be a bullet point (square) next to GraphicsPrintingFormat. If there is, simply click on it to revert the options back to default. Let me know if this fixes your problem. Cheers! Igor C. Antonio Technical Support Engineer Wolfram Research, Inc. http://support.wolfram.com support at wolfram.com stagat at mrcsb.com (Bob Stagat) wrote in message news:<cbbcb2$9fh$1 at smc.vnet.net>... > Hello, all... > > I have been using Mathematica for a number of year and have become > reasonably proficient with it and familiar with most of its > idiosyncracies. I use a Macintosh and, until very recently, was using > Mathematica version 4.2 on OS X 10.1.5. One of the idiosyncracies that I'd > gotten used to was the Mac front end's inability to properly rotate > text on a plot's y-axis, but having it print OK on a Postscript > printer. > > Recently I upgraded my operating system to OS X 10.3.3 and Mathematica to > version 5. I was amazed to find that rotated text not only doesn't > work right in the front end, but it won't print correctly either on > the very same Postscript printers I've been using for a couple of > years. > > Is this really the case or (more likely) am I overlooking something > simple? Any suggestions about what I might be doing wrong will be > greatly appreciated. > > ~ Bob Stagat ~