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How can I improve Mathematica's resolution on a macbook retina display?
Mathematica 9.0 looks a bit fuzzy on the retina screen, how can I increase the resolution?
Here another screenshot showing a direct comparison between the browser and Mathematica
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Mathematica performance on Mac
I recently got a trial version of both Mathematica 9 and MATLAB 13a for Windows. I was stunned by the performance difference in the Windows and the Mac version. It was a simple test in matrix ...
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Does Mathematica 11 work with MacOS Catalina 10.15
I just upgraded my macbook to 10.15 and could not open Mathematica 11. I am wondering are there any workarounds to use Mathematica 11 without upgrading to 12? Thank you!
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RLink no longer works with R 3.5 on macOS
How can I use RLink with R 3.5 (the latest version) on macOS?
I believe that Mathematica has huge potential as a glue language, and that links to other systems, like RLink, are not only very useful, ...
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Removing unwanted appearance of underlying mesh
Let us first define two positive definite matrices:
M1 = {{2, -6}, {4, 8}};
M2 = {{2, 3}, {4, 8}};
then set two points ...
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PDF export on macOS Mojave produces bold fonts
I have updated my OS to macOS 10.14 Mojave. I found whenever I export a plot into a PDF file, the font of the label and ticks are automatically replaced into a bold font. I use Mathematica 11.3.
Any ...
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Kernel inexplicably hangs if I define a pure function without suppressing output
Bug introduced in 9.0 and fixed in 10.0.2
Save any unsaved work before trying as it may crash Mathematica and other programs by filling up the memory!
In v9.0.1.0 on OSX 10.8.5, if I start a new ...
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Mathematica not optimized for macOS?
On launching Mathematica (11.3.0.0) on macOS 10.13.4 I get a warning that it is "not optimized" for High Sierra. Is this a known issue being addressed?
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Library for FEAST method is missing
Mathematica (V 12.3.1, Native Mac M1 version) is not letting me use the FEAST method for solving eigenvalue problems. For example,
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Why does Mathematica use a different $PATH than terminal?
I am trying to run bash commands from within Mathematica. Funnily enough, Mathematica seems to use a different $PATH environment than the system environment. If I try
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Importing HDF5 with compound data
I am looking to Import HDF5 data with compound data. It appears, at least from what I read, that Mathematica 8.0.4 (and previous versions) does not support reading ...
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How do I "start a reference system"?
When I attempt to insert a citation or specify a database to use as a bibliography, I get a message that I need to "start" the "reference system" "manually":
I have no idea what a references system ...
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Benchmarks for new M1 MacBooks
Are there any benchmarks yet for Mathematica 12.1 on the new (13") M1 MacBook Air or (13") M1 MacBook Pro?
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M1 Apple silicon ML performance
Testing out a new M1 Macbook pro with Mathematica 13.0.0. I verified that I used the correct version and it is running natively on ARM.
Mathematica in general runs great, and much fast than on my ...
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Does Mathematica 11 work on MacOS Sierra?
I'm not sure if I should upgrade, so I wanted to see if anyone has used v11 sucessfully on the newest OSX?
This is the discussion about the same topic on Wolfram Community.
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On comparable hardware, is Mathematica known to perform better in one operating system over the others?
Have any benchmarks been published by Wolfram Research to compare the performance of Mathematica in the major operating systems (Windows 10, Linux, MacOS)? If not, has anyone here performed such ...
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Mathematica 12.3.1 Apple M1
Mathematica version 12.3.1 just recently came out, and one of the biggest things is the support for apple silicon, the M1...I completely uninstalled version 12.3 and just reinstalled 12.3.1 to do some ...
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PDF Export in 11.3
I have some Mathematica notebooks that have text, code, plots, and hyperlinks in some text cells. The notebooks use a custom stylesheet that I've used for a number of years. Up until version 11.3 ...
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After editing a file Mathematica 10 interprets [...]^2 as [...(])^2
Bug introduced in 10.0 and persisting through 10.2 or later
This is a very weird bug and I don't really know how to reproduce it, so I'll just copy-paste the whole code
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Can one affect the appearance of components of a control?
I'd like to control the appearance of the components of a TabView[] control.
Such a control appears constructed of Buttons, <...
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MathLink linking error after OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) upgrade
After macosx 10.9 mavericks upgrade i have a compilation problem, you can see below. Even the examples given in /Applications/Mathematica.app/SystemFiles/Links/MathLink/DeveloperKit/MacOSX-x86-64/...
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Avoiding an unresponsive user interface in OS X
I have found that despite Mathematica's numerous updates, each of which have added much functionality, one fundamental issue remains unaddressed: The unresponsiveness of the UI when I make a mistake (...
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Receive macOS notification when evaluation finishes
Is Mathematica able to communicate with macOS's native Notification Center in order to notify me if an evaluation finishes in any of my open notebooks?
I'm looking for a solution similar to this one ...
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Launch a specific notebook automatically when Mathematica starts
I run Mathematica on an iMac running OS X 10.6.8.
I have set the OS's "Launch Items" to include Mathematica so that the application opens when the computer boots.
Now I want to go further and ...
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CUDALink not working on Mac OS X
On my MacBook Pro, I have a CUDA enabled video card, yet Mathematica does not seem to recognize this. For example, following the CUDALink Setup, I get
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Inline TeX Input renders wrong characters / symbols
Bug introduced in 12.2, fixed in 13.0.
As you may know, you can write TeX within a cell with CTR+$ and press ...
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PDF export in Mac OSX Mojave [duplicate]
Exporting a simple graph as PDF in Mac OSX Mojave changes the text to a different, bold font:
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Does Mathematica on Mac OS use virtualization for certain functions?
I'm evaluating this code in Mathematica 8.0.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8:
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How to force native styling of controls?
While preparing a dynamic module, I discovered a weird behaviour of Mathematica's controls when you rotate them:
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How to Speak in a foreign language?
A previous question changed the pronunciation by changing the spelling of words or by externally changing the default system voice. This is useful for speaking in foreign languages too, but I don't ...
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Drag & drop path info into front end?
On OSX at least, it's possible to quickly retrieve a folder/file path by dragging & dropping the folder/file into the terminal, eg:
Is it possible to program Mathematica's front end enable ...
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Front end crash on Export in 10.2 on OS X
Bug introduced in 10.2.0 and fixed in 10.3.0
Appears to be specific to OS X
Mathematica 10.2 is reliably crashing for me when trying to export a pdf that has text with ligatures. For example:
<...
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How to use MacPorts' gcc with CreateLibrary?
Short version: What's the simplest way to use MacPorts' gcc with CreateLibrary?
Long version:
CreateLibrary uses ...
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Unmodified Clipboard content
How do I get unmodified text content from the clipboard?
If you copy the following into the clipboard and use ClipboardNotebook[] ...
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How can I get OSX split screen to work?
OSX on Mac now allows two apps to split the screen.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204948
Doesn't seem to work in Mathematica, even though the full-screen button displays an icon suggesting that it ...
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How to use FontWeight options in Mathematica 10.x
Bug introduced in OSX v10.0.0 and persisting in all v10.x.x. Almost fixed in v11.0.0
I‘m using stylesheets to create customized styles for course materials. That includes using fonts like Gill Sans, ...
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IGraphM on Apple Silicon?
I recently got a new laptop with Apple's M1 Max processor and now the IGraphM installer
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CapForm bugged in V11?
Bug introduced in 10.4 and fixed in 11.1
This problem is specific to OS X
It appears on my system (OSX 10.10.5) that CapForm isn't behaving itself in V11. ...
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How do you get high resolution plots in applications using the Mathematica MathService?
This is for Mac users only using MathService (MathService it seems, given that it was created back in 2004, is a power pc code and requires Rosetta to run on Intel).
If I type a plot command in ...
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Cannot find BaseDirectory or UserBaseDirectory in Mac OS El Capitan
I am new to Mac OS, so this might be a silly question, but....
I just searched for $BaseDirectory and $UserBaseDirectory in my ...
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Access wi-fi raw data
I would like to know if anyone has any idea of how to access live wi-fi raw data from my computer (in monitor and promicuous mode).
I would like to develop a code to get the MAC address of every ...
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Ray tracing working in Mac, but not on Windows
Here is a working Mathematica code for a 3d plot:
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Where does Mathematica install command line tools on OS X Lion?
I've read the documentation and tutorials on using Mathematica and the kernel from the command line, and all of these materials suggest that I ought to be able to simply type either
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Installing WolframScript (12) on OSX (Catalina)
I did a clean install of Catalina (OSX 10.15) and Mathematica 12.0 installation was flawless. However I can't install WolframScript which I greatly need.
During the installation, after typing my ...
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Color ramp banding in PDFKit when exporting Raster image Inset to PDF
Here I produce a Raster image with large uniformly colored rectangles and put it in an Inset:
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J/Link stealing focus from the Front End on OS X. Workaround?
Link to Wolfram Community version
Calling getDefaultToolkit() through J/Link causes the Front End to lose focus. This is specific to OS X. Here is a minimal ...
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TargetDevice->"GPU" doesn't work in version 11.1 on mac
It seems that TargetDevice->"GPU" doesn't work for me in Mathematica version 11.1. I get an error message:
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EventLocator in NDSolve seemingly hogs memory in Windows, but not Mac
I have written a function (ftest in my code) which does the following:
Takes a vector {x,vx,vy} as input
Numerically solves (with high precision) a specific system ...
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Strange behavior of autocomplete for ColorData [closed]
I'm seeing very weird behavior when autocompleting:
Not sure if this is a bug. Is it?
(I have OSX v10.2)
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