[OS X TeX] Mathematica e TeXShop

[Georgios Pyrgiotakis]

Hi all,
I also use mathematica and I do what you suggested but still I cannot 
see properly characters like "\" "/" Greek letters and all the non 
English characters.

Georgios

On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 09:17 AM, William Adams wrote:

> Alessandro asked:
>> I am trying to import a EPS file produced with Mathematica 4.1 in a tex
>> file which is compiled using TeXShop-teTeX.
>> I think I have to install some additional package
>> to see and print well the fonts included in the eps file.
>> Do you know how can I find some hints about it ?
>
> You want to typeset this using the GhostScript option (as opposed to
> pdfTeX). That'll allow TeX to put the files into a PostScript stream
> which is then distilled to .pdf---you may need to get and install the
> Mathematica fonts though.
>
>> Off Topic: a friend of mine is trying to do the same using textures,
>> but even if he downloaded and installed
>> the Mathematica and Textures package from Gray's site,
>> the final result is not good (the fonts are not
>> well displayed on the video and are not printed well).
>
> You're see a lousy bitmap preview which problem was solved in 1989 w/
> Display PostScript, but no one bought the $10,000 boxes, and when we had
> a second chance at it, Adobe, Quark, et. al., weren't willing to
> re-write their programs (and Adobe renegged on providing Display
> PostScript), so we're back in the stone age. (Quartz is nice, but it
> pales somewhat in comparison to what DPS offered, to say nothing of the
> delay involved in creating it as a replacement)
>
>> Do you know if there's some another step to do ?
>
> Yes, two. Wait for Blue Sky to do a Mac OS X version of Textures and
> convert the files to .pdf (say by installing pStill.app to act as a .eps
> -> pdf filter)
>
> Or, get a PostScript printer or interpreter of some sort (distilling the
> files to .pdf will solve this as well) so that one gets the underlying
> graphics / text, not the lousy bitmap.
>
> William
> (who has been looking at clunky bitmap preview (long story) in Textures
> in Mac OS 9.1 for days now, and is experiencing eyestrain and stress,
> and desparately wishes his sister would send him his Color NeXT Slab so
> he could use it at work)
> --
> William Adams, publishing specialist
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