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Re: Printing Mathematica Notebooks and WYSIWYG

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  • Subject: [mg123843] Re: Printing Mathematica Notebooks and WYSIWYG
  • From: "Kevin J. McCann" <Kevin.McCann at umbc.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:28:34 -0500 (EST)
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Except that reading on my computer screen is hard on the eyes if more 
than a few pages are to be read, and, more importantly, I can't make 
pencil marks in the margins. I have not tried CDF yet; maybe this 
addresses the second of these. Kindle-like screens might be a solution 
to the first.

Kevin

On 12/21/2011 6:59 AM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> On 12/20/2011 2:01 AM, Armand Tamzarian wrote:
>
>> As I wrote to someone who emailed me today, it beggars belief that
>> this could be so complex if Mathematica is genuinely intended to be a useful
>> tool for making print ready documents -- or even a useful tool for
>> print, period.
>>
>
> Print documents are so old fashioned in this day of cloud and web
> computing.
>
> I hardly print anything any more. My printer is still new, as almost
> everything I view, compute and work with is done on the screen directly.
>
> This is what the world is moving to. Active and interactive documents that
> live on the computer screen is the future.
>
> Once I am used now to CDF documents, I find static plots and static
> diagrams so boring and even annoying since I can't reach out and
> manipulate it :)
>
> --Nasser
>



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