Re: trouble printing to PDF
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg118263] Re: trouble printing to PDF
- From: "E. Martin-Serrano" <eMartinSerrano at telefonica.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
Hi,
I was never able to print properly notebooks to PDF. The typical problem I
encountered were PDF page overflow (a notebook page -either letter or A4
size- printed on several PDF pages and/or poor printing quality).
Recently I am using the "FILE -> SAVE SELECTION AS" menu command to print
graphics from selected cells, and that problem remains despite I try to fit
the actual size of the graphics to the PDF standard page size (A4, letter or
whatever). Moreover, some parts of the pictures printed on a PDF page
differs in quality, among them, within the same graphic unit. On PDF pages,
those parts of the picture generated with "Graphics" primitives like "Plot",
etc. look notably different than those generated with "Manipulator" and
"Slider"; this applies even to the frames surrounding these parts
(Panel/Framed), and this includes the colors of the frames, both, for
background and lines. Of course, there is not such a difference on the
monitor screen, neither on the same pictures, if saved as "JPG", "GIF", etc.
However, the overall quality of the pictures saved on "JPG", "GIF", "TIFF"
files is poor compared to that in PDF. In summary, those Mathematica
pictures ("pictures", said to distinguish programmable "Graphics" from
build in graphics as "Manipulators") got from selected cells and saved as
graphic format files render general poor quality compared to the same parts
on the PDF, but other parts on PDF pictures (Manipulators and the like)
render even poorer quality in PDF than the same in the standard graphic
format files.
Besides, notebook graphics both dumped to PDF and "JPG", "TIFF" look like as
if they had been generated in error (showing background colors changed to
reddish).
Curiously, if I cut the picture from the notebook by using the cut tool in
Windows 7 and then save the clipboard content on, say, a JPG file, then the
quality of the cut and saved picture looks almost identical than that in the
(V8) notebook. It could mean that the problem is not in Windows 7 itself.
E. Martin-Serrano
-----Mensaje original-----
De: sibir [mailto:martin.rommel at gmail.com]
Enviado el: viernes, 15 de abril de 2011 9:57
Para: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Asunto: [mg118174] trouble printing to PDF
Already with version 7 I was not able to reliably print to the Adobe PDF
"printer" under Windows XP.
Now I run version 8 under Windows 7 with Acrobat 9 Standard and the problems
continue.
Just tried freeware PDFCreator and it also renders Mathematica unresponsive.
What is going on? Am I the only one? Is there a work-around?