Re: Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks
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- Subject: [mg18147] Re: [mg18079] Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 00:51:46 -0400
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Jean-Marie Thomas wrote: > > When inserting external objects, you destroy the "7bits only" which - I > understand - makes Mathematica notebooks portable. I don't understand this issue if I'm transporting the notebook from one PC (Win 98) to another (Win 95), whereas I can well understand it if I were transporting, say, from a PC to a Mac. > > Except for presentations, inserting external objects brings no interest, > because you cannot have no real link between them and your code. But is is PRECISELY for presentation that I wanted the external objects! I was about to give a presentation using Mathematica (ver. 4) as my "live Power Point", and it was VERY distressing to find that I could not do it once I transferred the notebook from my desktop PC to the (old) laptop PC I would use for the presentation. Being able to summon up, say, a .pdf file in a Mathematica-based presentation is infinitely valuable as a time saver! > > Hope this helps, > > jmt > > On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Murray Eisenberg > wrote: > Has anyone successfully and consistently been able to use Insert Object > > in Mathematica 4 (or, for that matter, in Mathematica 3) to insert > > existing Adobe Acrobat .pdf files into notebooks? > > > > (1) On my Windows 98, 166 MHz Pentium with 65 MB RAM, Mathematica 4 is > > slow even to pop up the box of the types of objects available for > > insertion. Then it takes up to minutes for the Adobe Acrobat Document > > object to be inserted. When the insertion is finished, I see an Adobe > > Acrobat icon and a label something like "Adobe Acrobat Document". > > > > However, when the notebook is later reopened, I get what appears to be a > > totally blank cell where the insertion went. Only by clicking inside do > > I then see a little dashed-outline rectangle, clicking on which does at > > long last launch Acrobat Reader with the .pdf file displayed. > > > > (2) IfI try the option of inserting as an Icon, sometimes I get nothing > > and somtimes I get some tiny, tiny, nearly invisible blob in the cell. > > > > (3) I do not seem to be able to do more than one such insertion -- > > whether in the same Notebook or in different Notebooks -- without > > exiting Mathematica and restarting it. > > > > (4) I transferred some Mathematica 4 notebooks, along with the refernced > > ..pdf files, to a Windows 95 133 MHz, 32 MB laptop. On their the > > iinserted objects totally disappeared. Not even the dashed-outline > > rectangles. > > > > > > -- > > Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu > > Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H) > > Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) > > Amherst, MA 01003-4515 -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H) Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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- Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
- Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks