Questions on converting data, graphics, sound etc. from Mathematica into other file formats.
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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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$\LaTeX$ 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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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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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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How do I save a variable or function definition to a file?
Is it possible to save a function which was created via Interpolation of some data in such a way that I can use this function in a new Mathematica session without ...
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Saving a notebook as PDF, preserving syntax highlighting
Currently, one may save notebooks as PDFs from the menu by Save As... and then selecting PDF (on a Mac, I imagine it is similar on other OSs). However, the ...
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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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How to do http POST in Mathematica?
The Import command lets you do a HTTP GET from a URL, like this
Import @ "http://merkosoncampus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/higgs-boson.jpg"
This sends an ...
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Convert Graphics3D containing BSpline to polygon primitives for export to 3DS?
Graphics3D[] objects created with BSpline functions will not export to 3DS format, which only supports the more basic primitives. Is there any straightforward way ...
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Does Mathematica support variable frame rate for any video format, in analogue of GIF-style “DisplayDurations”?
The good old GIF animation format allows us to set the duration of each individual frame in the animation separately. This is especially useful if some frames in ...
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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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Avoiding white lines inside filled area in RegionPlot exported as PDF or PS
When doing a RegionPlotand then exporting (or saving from the front end) as PDF or EPS, there are small white lines in the filling of the region. Here's an example ...
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When exporting an (animated) GIF, is it possible to specify the size of the color palette?
I've exported an animation to animated GIF, which generated a 15mb file. I've been asked if I could regenerate the file, limiting it to only 16 colors, but I can't find any documentation on how I ...
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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 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 and import Graphs with additional data?
I'm trying to export and then later import graphs with additional data added such as VertexLabels and EdgeLabels. When I export ...
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Exporting a dashed plot with a color gradient to a vector graphics format ruins the dashing
When exporting a dashed plot with a color gradient to a vector graphics format such as EPS or PDF, the dashing is partly ruined. For example, this command:
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Printing exported PDF graphics fails (version 8)
When I export even simple graphics, say, a DateListPlot to PDF under Windows, it refuses to print on any of the printers at work.
Acrobat (Reader X) throws three ...
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How can I ensure graphics exported in WMF format don't have text-spacing problems?
A lot of my work involves manipulating data, drawing a pretty plot of it and then inserting that graphic into a report written in Microsoft Word, under Windows.1 The fun comes with the exporting part. ...
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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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How to control the page size when exporting as a PDF?
When I used Mathematica under Windows, I could control the page size of the pdf files created by Export[...,"PDF"] by setting the paper size in the print menu to ...
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Export Plots to $\LaTeX$
What is the quickest and best way to export a plot image from Mathematica to a $\LaTeX$ Editor? Is there something quicker than exporting it to an image and then including it in the $\LaTeX$ document?
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High memory use while exporting a BMP
Something mysterious is going on when exporting images. I'm using Mathematica 9.0.1 on Windows 7 (64 bit), and find that the memory use is excessive when exporting to a bmp. But it doesn't happen ...
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Graphics exported from Mathematica 9 are very large because even standard fonts are embedded
I've upgraded from Mathematica 8 to 9 (which apparently leaves the old version installed and usable which I didn't expect). I see a significant difference in the size of the PDFs produced by 'Save ...
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How to save all data in all variables so that loading it is fast?
I've got this CSV file I've imported that has tens of millions of lines in it. It takes around 20 minutes to import. I've been working with it for a while and have the processed data spread out in a ...
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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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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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Easy way to export Graphics3D as triangles with VertexNormals?
I would like to export an arbitrary Graphics3D object as a text file containing:
list of vertices
vertex normals
triangle faces
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How to save animation in mp4 format instead of avi?
I'd like to save Manipulate[] output so that I can embed an mp4 in my pdf document (using the media9 latex package). I've done this successfully in the past by ...
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Exporting numbered equations to HTML/TeX using conversion rules
This question is a follow up from this one. It may also be considered a duplicate since I have already asked this question in stackoverflow almost a year ago. For a background on using numbered ...
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Exporting notebook to HTML, using conversion rules
The idea is to export the whole notebook to HTML with all the math equations in latex form. In this way we can add the mathjax script and it will take care of the math.
Suppose we have the following ...
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Which ray-tracing software is compatible with Graphics3D?
I am interested in working alternative to Mathematica's FrontEnd for rendering Graphics3D produced by Mathematica. The requrements are:
An ability to import ...
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Unsatisfactory view of Panel, when transformed to pdf
I like very much to wrap Mathematica images by Panel, which gives many of them a much better view. To be precise, if image is some illustration, plot etc. I would ...
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How to dynamically name and date a file for export?
I have various functions that export Excel and text files, and need to have them named with a name based on the content of some variables in the function and the time and date. How can this be done ...
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Is it possible to export the equations from Mathematica to MATLAB?
Is it possible to export the output expressions from Mathematica computations (e.g., equations) in valid MATLAB syntax?
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Dynamic visualization of Graph[] on a webpage
How can we embed a dynamic version of a Graph object on a web page, similar to the one showcased on the networkx home page?
This sort of dynamic visualization can ...
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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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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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Maximum size of TIF files in Mathematica
I have a question concerning the maximum size of TIFF files Mathematica can handle. According to the TIFF 6.0 specification -revision 6.0 (see: ...
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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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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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Creating a realtime MIDI Out
I have a live stream of notes and note velocities using SoundNote and SoundVolume. My problem is that I have no idea how to ...
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Encoding format used by GraphicsData?
I am trying to extract some graphics stored in PICT format from a Mathematica notebook, using a platform that doesn't support PICT. If I look at the .nb file in a ...
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Exporting a Large Multidimensional Sparse Array
I'm trying to export a sparse array from Mathematica to share with collaborators who primarily use Matlab.
The sparse array in question is 4 dimensional, (72 x 93 x 94 x 172) with ~4M non-zero ...
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Automatizing PSfrag export
I'm in the early phase of creating a Mathematica function (or package) that exports graphics such that they can be used with $\LaTeX$'s PSfrag.
The goal
Ideally, the function should take a graphic ...
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Send HTML tables with SendMail
I'm trying to send some HTML table using Mathematica SendMail function. To do it I wrote this function:
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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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Using Export[] sends the file where?
I am trying to use the Export command to convert a list of plots into a *.gif file, and the command runs and executes well, but I can't find the file! Where is it ...
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How to export large graphics?
I'm using Raster to create large graphics (1000 by 1666), which I want to Export as a JPEG or TIFF in a resolution that can be printed in a large size, 3' by 5'. ...
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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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