Re: MathPlayer???
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- Subject: [mg75829] Re: MathPlayer???
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak at sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 05:34:29 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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I'll find out when I get 6.0 :-) Presumably everything but the new dynamic stuff. Or not. Hopefully the new pdf capabilities will make exporting more foolproof. I suppose I could just send them here <http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/windows/general/latestfonts.html> for the fonts, no? (Are these the same as the 6.0 fonts?) I'm more careful about embedding fonts now anyway. I'm being nitpicky, I know. It would just be nice if Mathplayer was a bit more conveniently sized, or at least compressed more aggressively. I know the Java distribution it contains must be kept "As Is" but I wonder if anything else could be done? --Urijah Murray Eisenberg wrote: > Will MathReader work OK with 6.0 notebooks?? > > Does pdf export from Mathematica 6.0 embed the Mathematica fonts in the > file? If so, why should there be a problem? (Times?) If not, the > receiver of your file could, I presume, resort to the following ruse: > download and install Mathematica Player. Copy the installed TrueType > Mathematica fonts to somewhere else. Uninstall Mathematica Player. > Copy back the Mathematica fonts. Silly, yes; works, I think so! > > Urijah Kaplan wrote: >> Well, I've been burned sending pdfs that look fine on my computer but look >> terrible on another (font issues and whatnot). Page breaks aren't that >> great either. Mathreader also allows you to resize the text to some degree >> (not just zoom in.) Sometimes things don't line up exactly as I expect >> them to either. Are any of these deal-breakers? No. >> >> A little digging revealed to me that you can still download Mathreader >> http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathreader/download.cgi >> hopefully Wolfram will allow that to stay up there for anyone who still >> needs/wants it. >> >> --Urijah >> >> >> >> Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> So just export the notebook to pdf and send that! Except for not being >>> able to open/close cell groups when reading the file in Acrobat (or >>> other pdf reader), that should be just as good as Mathreader, no? >>> >>> Urijah Kaplan wrote: >>>> Of course, I understand that. But the fact remains that it is also >>>> supposed to replace Mathreader as a static notebook reader, in which case >>>> it seems a bit overkill. It's now more unlikely for me to send someone a >>>> .nb file and tell them to download MathReader, particularly if I don't >>>> know if they have dial-up or not. At the very least more care should be >>>> expended to make the download smaller--just using 7-Zip (LZMA) compression >>>> would reduce the download by 40%! Perhaps there can be a "minimal" and >>>> "max" download where the min primarily reads .nb files and max reads .nbp >>>> files, and the "min" can dynamically download whatever files it needs to >>>> playback that particular .nbp program. >>>> >>>> I realize I'm being an ungrateful wretch, since Mathplayer is far, far, >>>> more powerful than MathReader was; still... >>>> >>>> --Urijah >>>> >>>> Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>>>> But you're not getting just a front end to read static notebooks. >>>>> You're getting a run-time system, too, for .nbp files. >>>>> >>>>> Urijah Kaplan wrote: >>>>>>> It doesn't give me a warm feeling though that the Player installer evidently >>>>>>> doesn't install an uninstaller nor does it give Windows enough information >>>>>>> to register it in Control Panel>Add/Remove Programs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If my life and/or career depended on my ability to run Mathematica, I'd give >>>>>>> it a day or two before installing Player on my 'A' machine. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Fred Klingener >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Also, for something that's supposed to replace MathReader from what I >>>>>> understand, the download is rather hefty. (79.9 MB) I managed to >>>>>> recompress it to 47.9 MB with 7-Zip, which would be a good start. >>>>>> >
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- Re: MathPlayer???
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak@sas.upenn.edu>
- Re: MathPlayer???
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak@sas.upenn.edu>
- Re: MathPlayer???