Re: Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks
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- Subject: [mg18198] Re: Inserting Adobe pdf files in ver. 4 notebooks
- From: Selwyn Hollis <slhollis at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:50:39 -0400
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PDF? ... You can't even import EPS files created by other applications. I'm guessing we have to wait and shell out hundreds of $$ for version 5.0 to have such luxuries. 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 > inserted 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 -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. Selwyn Hollis Associate Professor of Mathematics Armstrong Atlantic State University Savannah, GA 31419 USA <http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis/> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~