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Re: Plot Rendering Problem with V5 FrontEnd on Linux

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• Subject: [mg43460] Re: [mg43419] Plot Rendering Problem with V5 FrontEnd on Linux
• From: jmt <jmt at dxdydz.net>
• Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 07:59:36 -0400 (EDT)
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I do not have this problem with Mathematica 5.0 under Debian GNU/Linux 
(woody).

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:36, Cheng-Pang Liu wrote:
  > I tried two very simple plots in V5 frontend environment on Linux
  > (RedHat 8.0):
  >
  > 1) Plot[x,{x,0,1}]
  >
  > 2) Plot[0.00000001*x,{x,0,1}]
  >
  > While the first one comes out fine, the second one just freezes when the
  > plot is being rendering (the title bar shows:
  > Rendering...Running...Untitled.nb*), and the whole Mathematica stops to
  > respond so that I have to kill the frontend process in order to exit.
  >
  > I suspect the problem have something to do with converting the tick
  > points from their original form to the scientific notation.
  >
  > I also found that
  >
  > 1) Running in the kernel environment does not have this problem.
  >
  > 2) V5 frontend can still successfully load in plots, ones generated in
  > V4, with tick points in scientific notation.
  >
  > Any idea or possible solution?
  >
  > Thanks!
  >
  > C.P.

• References:
  • Plot Rendering Problem with V5 FrontEnd on Linux
    • From: Cheng-Pang Liu <cpliu@shaw.ca>