Re: Printing Mathematica Notebooks and WYSIWYG
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- Subject: [mg123822] Re: Printing Mathematica Notebooks and WYSIWYG
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 06:54:18 -0500 (EST)
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Thank you for the insights Mike and David, This is frustrating. How can I use Mathematica to submit a grant proposal, letter of intent, or journal article if you cannot be sure of meeting the style requirements of the recipient agency? Is it enough to set the magnification of the Printout environment to .8888888 = 12/13.5 to ensure that 12-point Times or 12-point Palatino can be written to PDF as such? Gregory > I have always been puzzled by this design choice by WRI. If one sets a > font size to be 12 point, it should be designed to print as 12 point. > Of course, these days, what appears on a screen (as compared to print) > is all over the map because the dot pitches of screens are all over > the map. Because of this, wisywig is no longer true wisywig when > going from screen to print. But, so long as one specifies a print > terminology such as "12 point" for a font (as opposed to "large", > "small", etc, which are subject to interpretation by a rendering > engine for a particular device), then 12 point should *print* as 12 > point in my opinion. > > Note that the magnification for the Printout environment is 0.72 in > default.nb while it is 0.8 in Core.nb (so Default.nb overrides Core.nb > due to the inheritance hierarchy). Also note that the > PrintoutEnviornment value for the font size in the "Text" style for > Default.nb is 13.5. So what one sees on the screen when in a the > printout environment in a Text cell is 13.5 * 0.72 = 9.72 points as it > appears at the dot pitch of your screen. The 13.5 point size for Text > cells does not apply for, for example, the Book/Textbook stylesheet. > > Okay, so what can we learn from this? I am not sure if there is a > ptolemaic system of backward compatibility adjustments going on here > in the stylesheets or whether there is a clear, but complex design > model. it would be nice to see the clear explanation. > > By the way, I generally keep things set up so that, when I print, it > does not automatically use the Printout environment, but rather it > uses the Working environment... > > > --David >