Questions on converting data, graphics, sound etc. from Mathematica into other file formats.

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Save and call matrices with large output in Mathematica [duplicate]

If we have the large matrix A=RandomReal[{-10, 10}, {1000, 1000}]; and I need it for further calculation, how can I save it on hard disk and then call for ...
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What exactly does AddTeX2Eps do and how does one use it?

What exactly is Janko Slavic's addon package AddTeX2Eps supposed to do, and exactly how does one get it to work? I do understand it's supposed to allow one to use TeX ...
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How to solve issue with exporting / importing data to and from Excel

Background ( simplified ): When I export data to Excel like ...
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How to embed fonts when exporting Mathematica graphics as PDF

Upon exporting a Mathematica graphics expression as a PDF, Mathematica does not seem to embed any nonstandard fonts used. When you open the resulting PDF document with a PDF viewer, all the text items ...
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Export long filename truncated

I am seeing a weird behavior on exporting at least one type of file (here, a QuickTime movie) to files with long names. If I do this: ...
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My donut has holes in it!

More than one hole, I mean… I’m trying to export from Mathematica into the X3D format, with the longer term goal of generating 3D figures for PDF inclusion. But I'm stuck at the first step: ...
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Exporting and reimporting a list of lists changes the dimensions

Could anyone explain to me what in the world is going on here and please help me in reading in dummy.dat properly? ...
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Autorotating 3D plots

These days, I have to produce quite a few 3D surface plots (mostly functions of the type $\rho(\theta,\phi)$ plotted with SphericalPlot3D). To exchange these ...
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Too much vertical space in a CDF file

When I prepare a CDF file to be included into a web page, far too much blank vertical space is left over the pane. Is there a command to reduce that? This is illustrated by the files SimpleDemos.nb ...
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Exporting held expressions through JSON

Trying to round-trip expressions through JSON, I'm getting unexpected errors for held expressions, and would be grateful for advice or clues. Consider, first, something that works well ...
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Export to file from ParallelDo loop

I currently have a Mathematica code similar to: ...
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How to reduce the memory necessary for the image? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file I have a figure that is created to use in a paper. Here it is: ...
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Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file. I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with ...
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How to fix broken InterpolatingFunction?

I have an InterpolatingFunction based on irregularly-gridded data, like this: ...
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How to properly DumpSave & Get Global`s symbols inside packages while not touching Global context?

For efficiency reasons I prefer to use DumpSave instead of Save. For ease of access I prefer to save symbols in ...
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How well does Mathematica code exported to C compare to code directly written for C?

Essentially what it says in the title. Mathematica can, IIRC, export it's code to C. How much overhead does that inflict on the code, as compared to writing it from scratch in C?
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Labels and tickmarks inside Frame

Is there a way to force Plot and related functions to place the tick labels inside, rather than outside a frame? For example, consider, ...
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Scaling grids of plots and text size

Sometimes I have occasion to make big grids of plots. As a toy example: ...
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Formatting output of OpenAppend[] to match what Export[data,file,“.csv”] would output?

I have a large data set that gets exported to a .csv file. Export[data,filename,"csv"] is extremely fast and formats the data in a nice JMP-friendly manner. ...
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Speeding up export of a matrix to a dat file

I'm trying to export a 1000*100 matrix of numbers to a .dat file using Export (I want the numbers to be separated by a tab) and ...
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How to work around incorrect tooltips in plots exported to HTML

This is an issue that I always wanted to investigate but haven't gotten around to solving yet: The tooltips for contour lines in a plot like this can be very useful in the Notebook interface: ...
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What is the most efficient way to save a big graphic?

I want to generate a graphic using DiscretePlot[primePercent[x], {x, 10^10}, ImageSize -> Full, Filling -> None, Joined -> True] where ...
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How do I export to Excel in multiple, named worksheets?

If I have two lists: list1 = {{1, 2}, {3, 4}}; list2 = {{5, 6}, {7, 8}}; I want to export these two lists to an Excel file and have ...
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Question about $\LaTeX$ generated by Mathematica

I saved a Mathematica Notebook as a *.tex file. When compiling in TeXnicCenter I get the an error on the following generated code. ...
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Export a Row or Column as an image

How could I export the following as a single image and set its dimensions ? ...
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Reading from a text file and store the results back into it

I am totally new to mathematica but started learning how to use it. I use the following function to convert a decimal number into its binary representation. ...
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Is Compress[] compatible between different Mathematica versions?

Compress[] was introduced in version 6 of Mathematica. It gives a compressed version of expressions represented as a string of ASCII characters. It preserves more ...
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Export Graphics[] without white edges

I am trying to generate & Export[] Image with the below code, but as shown in the images I get some white border around my rectangle. How could I export an images that stopes right at the edge of ...
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How to develop an Import/Export converter for Compress[]ed data?

Mathematica has a cross platform data exchange format, WDX. Unfortunately importing or exporting large data from/to WDX is very slow. Using MX files is very fast, but they are not compatible across ...
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$\LaTeX$ and Mathematica

I quite often would like to draw graphics in my $\LaTeX$ documents using Mathematica. I have encountered three problems. I would like to know if there are any workarounds to these problems I would ...
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How can I share objects with dynamic content with non-Mathematica users?

Often when I construct some cool Manipulate[] function, I would like to share it with others—non-Mathematica users. Some software, notably Cinderella, ...
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How to export to HTML and not lose Grid Frame in the generated HTML?

This is a known issue for me with Mathematica. When I export a notebook to HTML, Mathematica loses some decorations such as Grid Frame lines (in grid and like objects). For example, creating this ...

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