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Re: Re: Re: Re: Page preview in Mathematica ?, Kerning

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  • From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
  • Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 01:46:57 -0400 (EDT)
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>> Of course this sort of utility -- at least the 2-up part -- is such a 
>> basic printing function that it ought to be built into the operating 
>> system, as it is with Macs.

I think it is (in XP, at least), if by 2-up you mean two per page.  I can 
also print two-per-page to paper, and I can preview by printing to the 
Acrobat Distiller. (Acrobat isn't built-in, of course.)

I'm trying to decide whether FinePrint has significant advantages over 
Acrobat, and the descriptions I've seen don't really settle the question.  
Is it faster?  Can you preview without creating an output file?  It is 
nominally cheaper, but I can get a Student version of Acrobat for about the 
same price as FinePrint.  It is time to upgrade to Acrobat 6 soon if I'm 
going to, so -- if you have any clarifications, let me know.

Bobby

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:26:25 -0400 (EDT), Murray Eisenberg 
<murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> I've used the current version, FinePrint 5, under Windows XP with 
> Mathematica 4.2.1 and now with Mathematica 5.0.  I want to second the 
> point in the posting below about the usefulness of previewing notebooks 
> in this utility -- and to mention that one can use it actually to print 
> pages 2-up, or to print back-to-back, booklet format, etc.   The utility 
> takes care of figuring out which document page goes where.
>
> (Of course this sort of utility -- at least the 2-up part -- is such a 
> basic printing function that it ought to be built into the operating 
> system, as it is with Macs.)
>
> Robert Kragler wrote:
>> Hi,
>> concerning Previewing of Mathematica notebooks under Windows my 
>> recommendation is FinePrint2000 which hooks between the application and 
>> any printer driver. FinePrint2000 allows a very nice previewing even of 
>> 2 resp. 4 pages on a single sheet and displays the actual 
>> layout/appearance of the final print so that I may correct pagebreak 
>> etc. before the actual (lengthy) printing.
>>
>> Robert Kragler
>>
>>
>> Date sent:      	Wed, 6 Aug 2003 03:16:34 -0400 (EDT)
>> From:           	"Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>> Subject: [mg43069] [mg43010] [mg42971]        	[mg42958] Re: Page preview in 
>> Mathematica ?, Kerning
>> Send reply to:  	"Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
>>
>>> Selwyn,
>>> Re Kerning:
>>> How about menu Edit>Expression Input> Nudge*, or AdjustmentBox in the 
>>> cell
>>> expression?
>>>
>>> Allan
>>> ---------------
>>> Allan Hayes
>>> hay at haystack.demon.co.uk
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>>>
>>>
>>> "Selwyn Hollis" <selwynh at earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:bgcupq$9qi$1 at smc.vnet.net...
>>>
>>>> Print preview should certainly be near the top of any wish list. (But
>>>> if you're fortunate enough to have a Mac w/OS X, printing to PDF is
>>>> almost as good.)
>>>>
>>>> To any such wish list I'd also add, in no particular order:
>>>>
>>>> * antialiasing of graphics!!
>>>> * flexible top/bottom cell margins
>>>> * serious undo functionality
>>>> * real unicode support (on the Mac anyway)
>>>> * better find/replace (e.g., replace all in selection)
>>>> * robust import of eps and pdf graphics
>>>> * less need for tweaking to make expressions look right; namely:
>>>> ** better typesetting of fractions (size should not be connected
>>>> to sub/superscript multiplier)
>>>> ** more consistent and reliable placement of sub/superscripts
>>>> ** more consistent and reliable spacing
>>>> ** more consistent and reliable sizing of summation and integral
>>>> signs
>>>> * kerning support
>>>>
>>>> Some of this may be due to my own ignorance; I'll be happy to learn
>>>> that's true. (Except for the antialiasing issue---that's not up for
>>>> debate. The antiantialiasing luddites lost long ago.)
>>>>
>>>> -----
>>>> Selwyn Hollis
>>>> http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 04:08  AM, Oliver Friedrich wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hallo,
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to use Mathematica to make nice documentation. Therefore I'd
>>>>> appreciate if I could have a page preview function. I want to see my
>>>>> document on a screen as WYSIWYG, including page breaks, headers,
>>>>> footers,
>>>>> etc... as it is done in Word.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there functionality or a simple workaround.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>
>>>>> Oliver Friedrich
>>
>>
>>
>



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