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Re: How to remove white borders on Graphics[]?

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  • Subject: [mg94895] Re: How to remove white borders on Graphics[]?
  • From: AES <siegman at stanford.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:51:00 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Stanford University
  • References: <git4ov$2n$1@smc.vnet.net> <gj55jo$c6k$1@smc.vnet.net> <gjad01$p3t$1@smc.vnet.net>

In article <gjad01$p3t$1 at smc.vnet.net>, lehin.p at gmail.com wrote:

> I say "loosing quality" because we can not get back all the points
> those are computed by LineIntegralConvolutionPlot[] by resizing the
> image, magnification, Export[] etc. Thus I think that in this case
> Mathematica is doing somethink that may be called as "fraud". All of
> the lost points are still kept in the InputForm of generated Graphics
> [] but any converting operation on this results in loosing all
> additional information needed for recovering points. And the way for
> recovering them is difficult and not obvious. Exporting all generated
> pionts in some lossless image format is one of every - day tasks for
> anyone who generates raster images in Mathematica. But in
> Documentation I have not found any guidance for this.
> The way to correct this behavour is to specify the precise . . . 

I believe this one single paragraph amounts to a telling illustration 
of just how far Mathematica has gone down several wrong paths, 
and of the hassles and dysfunctionality that this can create for
"ordinary users" of Mathematica.


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