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stoutfellow) wrote2011-05-12 07:17 pm
stoutfellow) wrote2011-05-12 07:17 pm
What We Have Here...
Today was an exceedingly frustrating day.
I'm still trying to assemble the graphics for the prisms paper. I can create them easily enough. I've overcome one of the major problems with the Mathematica-generated diagrams. I've surmounted several other hurdles. What I haven't been able to do is get all four of the relevant programs - Mathematica, Scientific Workplace, Geometer's Sketchpad, and Inkscape - onto the same page as far as formatting goes. Inkscape takes the output from Mathematica or GSP and produces beautiful .svg files - but SWP doesn't recognize .svg files. SWP wants .eps files, and Inkscape can produce those, but there's a definite dropoff in quality; also, the bleedin' text vanishes. Straight lines - vertical straight lines, not diagonals - from GSP develop a case of the jaggies if I put them directly into SWP. I can't get different but related figures to line up unless I put them into a single graphics file; otherwise, SWP stacks them vertically.
AAARGH!
I'm still trying to assemble the graphics for the prisms paper. I can create them easily enough. I've overcome one of the major problems with the Mathematica-generated diagrams. I've surmounted several other hurdles. What I haven't been able to do is get all four of the relevant programs - Mathematica, Scientific Workplace, Geometer's Sketchpad, and Inkscape - onto the same page as far as formatting goes. Inkscape takes the output from Mathematica or GSP and produces beautiful .svg files - but SWP doesn't recognize .svg files. SWP wants .eps files, and Inkscape can produce those, but there's a definite dropoff in quality; also, the bleedin' text vanishes. Straight lines - vertical straight lines, not diagonals - from GSP develop a case of the jaggies if I put them directly into SWP. I can't get different but related figures to line up unless I put them into a single graphics file; otherwise, SWP stacks them vertically.
AAARGH!