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MacOSX-TeX Digest #114 - Tuesday, October 2, 2001
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: [0ff-topic] Matlab and Mac OS X
by "Georges Vael"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: [0ff-topic] Matlab and Mac OS X
by "Dave McCollum"
embedding fonts
by "V. Vatsal"
Re: [Mac OS X TeX] embedding fonts
by "Gary L. Gray"
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: [0ff-topic] Matlab and Mac OS X
From: "Georges Vael"
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:38:55 +0200
Hello to all,
I subscribed to this mailing list a short while ago and feel urged to
react to the MATLAB off-topic.
First a brief introduction: I work for a small dutch engineering firm
involved in innovative hydrostatics. I use LaTeX (TeXShop and Pepper
under OSX) for the dissertation I am writing.
Although off-topic, I was glad the MATLAB issue appeared on this mailing
list. The Mathworks had gotten me to think I was the only Mac MATLAB
user left ! (They sent me their standard answer on the OSX inquiry)
Thanks for all the usefull remarks and tips:
- I too, had the MATLAB crashing on window closing issue: on my desktop,
not on my laptop: I will upgrade to 9.2.1 and OSX 10.1 shortly.
- I had forgotten about Octave, I will revisit them and the alternatives
mentioned.
On MATLAB speed under OSX: I have tested on a dual processor (500 Mhz)
desktop G4 and got equal speed running MATLAB in 9.1 under OSX, compared
to native running under 9.1 on the same machine. It seems the speed
advantage claimed for OSX on dual processor machines, offsets the speed
penalty of running 9.1 under OSX.
Georges Vael
Innas BV
Nikkelstraat 15
4823 AE Breda
The Netherlands
+31.76.5424080
gvael@innas.com
PS: Don't look for www.innas.com, it is not yet there!
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] Re: [0ff-topic] Matlab and Mac OS X
From: "Dave McCollum"
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 09:21:14 -0600
Georges,
The latest version of Matlab available to Mac users was built in
mid-1998. I doubt if there are any optimizations in the code for G3
processors (G4s weren't available for some time). Also, the Mesa
graphics "OpenGL clone" libraries were included (true OpenGL support
on the Mac was just appearing in 1998/1999). So, if Matlab were
simply recompiled today with G3 and G4 optimizations, and the Mesa
library calls replaced by OpenGL calls, we would have a much faster
application.
There may be something we could do about improving graphics
performance. Someone could obtain the source code for the included
Mesa libraries and rebuild them (they have to supplied by The
MathWorks on request, as part of the Mesa license). Or, since Mesa is
supposed to have an API equivalent to OpenGL, someone might be able
to rebuild the Mesa libraries to directly use OpenGL in the Mac OS...
or, maybe this effort would be better spent on developing Octave,
SciLab, gnatlab, etc.
[I sort of wish these groups would get together and make a viable,
fully featured program that would directly compete with Matlab, sans
Simulink ---- all I've ever seen are incomplete projects (not even
version 1.0 beta level.]
Oh well.
-Dave
>Hello to all,
>
>I subscribed to this mailing list a short while ago and feel urged
>to react to the MATLAB off-topic.
>First a brief introduction: I work for a small dutch engineering
>firm involved in innovative hydrostatics. I use LaTeX (TeXShop and
>Pepper under OSX) for the dissertation I am writing.
>
>Although off-topic, I was glad the MATLAB issue appeared on this
>mailing list. The Mathworks had gotten me to think I was the only
>Mac MATLAB user left ! (They sent me their standard answer on the
>OSX inquiry)
>
>Thanks for all the usefull remarks and tips:
>- I too, had the MATLAB crashing on window closing issue: on my
>desktop, not on my laptop: I will upgrade to 9.2.1 and OSX 10.1
>shortly.
>- I had forgotten about Octave, I will revisit them and the
>alternatives mentioned.
>
>On MATLAB speed under OSX: I have tested on a dual processor (500
>Mhz) desktop G4 and got equal speed running MATLAB in 9.1 under OSX,
>compared to native running under 9.1 on the same machine. It seems
>the speed advantage claimed for OSX on dual processor machines,
>offsets the speed penalty of running 9.1 under OSX.
>
>Georges Vael
>Innas BV
>Nikkelstraat 15
>4823 AE Breda
>The Netherlands
>+31.76.5424080
>gvael@innas.com
>
>PS: Don't look for www.innas.com, it is not yet there!
>
>
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Subject: embedding fonts
From: "V. Vatsal"
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 13:05:47 -0700
folks,
I'm having trouble embedding fonts into PDF files with ps2pdf from the
command line. It seems that the fonts are not being embedded at all, and
the PDF looks awful in Reader or Preview. I don't think there's anything
wrong with the ps file, as I can generate perfectly good PDF with embedded =
fonts by running Distiller in Classic.
Is there any way to force ps2pdf to embed all fonts? Or is this not
supported in the version of gs that comes with the teTeX bundled with
TeXShop?
Thanks in advance.
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Vinayak Vatsal
Department of Mathematics
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada V6T 1Z2
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Subject: Re: [Mac OS X TeX] embedding fonts
From: "Gary L. Gray"
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:45:54 -0400
On 10/02/2001 at 1:05 PM -0700, V. Vatsal wrote:
>I'm having trouble embedding fonts into PDF files with ps2pdf from
>the command line. It seems that the fonts are not being embedded at
>all, and the PDF looks awful in Reader or Preview. I don't think
>there's anything wrong with the ps file, as I can generate perfectly
>good PDF with embedded fonts by running Distiller in Classic.
>
>Is there any way to force ps2pdf to embed all fonts? Or is this not
>supported in the version of gs that comes with the teTeX bundled
>with TeXShop?
This brings up a question that I have had for some time. When TeXShop
calls teTeX using pdflatex, how do we know what fonts pdflatex is
embedding in the PDF file? There is no setting in TeXShop for this,
so I don't really know what is happening. I suppose this is related
to the question quoted above, that is, I assume that the TeX +
Ghostscript option in TeXShop is calling ps2pdf at some point, so how
do we know what fonts ps2pdf is embedding.
Inquiring minds want to know.
--
Gary
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