Re: Printing (v7)
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- Subject: [mg96101] Re: Printing (v7)
- From: Helen Read <hpr at together.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:38:14 -0500 (EST)
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Kevin J. McCann wrote: >> Helen Read wrote: >>> We've been having problems printing notebooks from Mathematica 7 >>> (Windows XP). If the notebook goes onto more than one page, frequently >>> cells that should go on following page(s) get printed at the top of page >>> 1, overwriting what is already at the top of the file. It's really a >>> mess. Sometimes it seems to work to Select All then Print Selection, but >>> even that doesn't always work. > > I have had the same problem. I watched as the pages counted up during > the print and when I printed it again the number was larger. The first > print had the first and second pages overprinted on the first page. Someone from Wolfram e-mailed me and said this will be fixed in the next incremental release (which I sure hope will be out soon). In the meantime he suggests going to File, Printing Settings, and Show Page Breaks. We are still seeing the problem, *sometimes*, even with the page breaks shown. Sometimes Select All, Print Selection fixes it, or simply printing a second time will fix it...some of the time. It's a big waste of paper trying to deal with this. Another intermittent (and difficult to reproduce) bug involves the Classroom Assistant Palette. Sometimes if you try to paste an option into a plot (PlotRange or PlotStyle, say) from the palette, it doesn't work. I forget what the error message says, but I have discovered that if you go to the "Help and Settings" at the bottom of the palette and change the 2D/3D commands insertion method from automatic to manual it will then work. (The difference being that "automatic" insertion trys to put the options in all by itself, including commas, in the appropriate place in your plot command. With "manual" insertion, you need to put the cursor in the right place and type in the commas yourself.) My students have been seeing this problem some of the time, unpredictably. -- Helen Read University of Vermont