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Re: Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data

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• Subject: [mg52286] Re: [mg52274] Re: Newly Released Mathematica 5.1 Delivers Unmatched Performance for Handling Data
• From: George Woodrow III <georgevw3 at mac.com>
• Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 07:23:21 -0500 (EST)
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Don't know about the other problems, but the rotated text on the mac is 
still not fixed.

I believe that in the (yet unannounced) version 6, the Mac front end 
will finally abandon QuickDraw (which is deprecated) in favor of 
Quartz. There should be other changes as well to the graphics 
rendering.

george

On 20 Nov, 2004, at 3:41 am, Time E. Time wrote:

> New features and better algorithms are great, but does anyone know if
> they've fixed any bugs in this release?  Things like
>
> The rotated text bug on Macs where labels on the y-axis of frames are
> garbled.
>
> The instability in large eigenvalue calculations, which sometimes make
> it impossible to interrupt the kernel and other times cause the kernel
> to unexpectedly quit.
>
> The "feature" where Mathematica uses a non-standard character
> encoding, so that text in graphics is garbled when imported into some
> other programs, like Illustrator.
>
> I'm excited about cluster analysis, but I can't bring myself to fork
> over any more money to Stephen Wolfram until simple problems which
> have existed for years are fixed.
>
> -Tim
>

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