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Re: Problem(?) pasting graphic as bitmap (Mathematica 8.0 & Mac OSX)

From	Helen Read <readhpr@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject	Re: Problem(?) pasting graphic as bitmap (Mathematica 8.0 & Mac OSX)
Date	2011-05-09 10:18 +0000
Organization	Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID	<iq8f1v$5rb$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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On 5/8/2011 7:33 AM, AK wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a new Mac user on OS X Snow Leopard version, and a "re-new" user
> of Mathematica 8 (meaning I played around with version 7 briefly about
> a year ago).
>
> I was trying to Command+C copy and then paste a simple graphic
> generated using the Plot command into MS Word for Mac, but what I get
> upon pasting is a bunch of Mathematica code instead of the bitmap that
> I was hoping to see.
>
> Is this what I ought to expect? Is there any way to "fix" this issue?
> Or is it necessary to first export my graphic explicitly to some image
> format and then insert that image into MS Word?

You should be able to copy/paste a graphic from Mathematica directly 
into MS Word, but I find that the image resolution is much better if I 
export to a .bmp or .jpg and insert the image into Word.

-- 
Helen Read
University of Vermont

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Re: Problem(?) pasting graphic as bitmap (Mathematica 8.0 & Mac OSX) Helen Read <readhpr@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 10:18 +0000

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