Simon: Hi, I am Professor Ravi Kalia. Can I get academic discount? I read your response about cost of EXP. MS Word Standard costs $130 for Teachers. I met you...
Ravi yes, you can open EXP v.3 with EXP v 5.1. You might download the EXP Viewer to verify that. All the formatting in a v.3 document is maintained in v. 5.1. ...
Jon Wilkin
jonwilkin@...
Dec 3, 2005 7:51 pm
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Jon: That was quick and satisfying. Still I am debating to buy EXP or not. I need convincing with regard to comparisons with Scientific Workplace 5.5 and...
A viewpoint about compatibility, particularly with MikTeX: If you look at Scientific Wplace (from what I have seen), it is not a simple front-end for LaTeX....
Bill: Your comments are very pertinent and answer a lot of questions that I have. Scientific Workplace has one advantage for me in that I can write solutions...
You can import previous versions of EXP into the current version (EXP 5.1, SP2), but importing LaTeX is still simply as text. In the latter case, you would...
Ravi, Thanks for your continued interest in EXP. Other people have already answered some of your questions, but I'll answer the remaining ones. (1) There is no...
Simon, Thanks for your reply. I need only an individual license. Math department had license ufor up to thirty people until EXP for Windows version 3. Our...
RAVI, A very important point about EXP has not been mentioned and that is the enormous help available from the users group. Without doubt, the EXP users group...
Clarke, Peter
PClarke@...
Dec 5, 2005 12:27 am
749
Peter: thanks for this very important piece. Your assertion is amply demonstrated in the last couple days. Ravi ... that is ... helpful and ... file ... most ...
Dear EXP experts, I am trying to insert some lines of poetry across parts of a page at a 45 degree angle. I wonder how? Also I would like the impossible, To...
Clarke, Peter
PClarke@...
Dec 12, 2005 6:13 am
751
Such a need is not really suited directly in EXP or any word processor. It is a graphic layout request. I use TOPDraw for such items, for which that would be a...
Peter, As Bill suggested, other software will do this. I used Open Office (beta, v 1.9) to do the angled text in the test I created. Look at the link. If you...
Wilkin, Jonathan L.
jwilkin@...
Dec 12, 2005 12:43 pm
753
Peter: I recommend that you use AutoCAD for this. I use it frequently for this sort of thing. I make all of my graphs with AutoCAD. The problem isn't making...
It appears that when I insert a .EMF graphic into a .EXP 5.1 document, that the print preview feature no longer works. If I remove the graphic, then it works...
Thanks to Bill, Jon and Bill for the ideas. I am now investigating. Peter Dr G. Peter Clarke, Senior Research Biometrician, Crop Variety Testing, Department of...
Clarke, Peter
PClarke@...
Dec 14, 2005 3:05 am
756
I would like to echo eo_engineer's mail. I have similar problems he mentioned. Sometimes I cannot get a print preview (with an error message similar to that...
Chungwu Ho
cho@...
Dec 14, 2005 7:23 am
757
Dear EXP Users I've had the same problem with print previews in EXP several times. Lateral strategic moves may be called for. I use the latest version of MS...
Johann van Rooyen
johanvr@...
Dec 14, 2005 7:49 am
758
This problem has been around for a long time. The Windows 98 problem has to do with the display engine that requires a newer engine. The page displays ...
If anybody is interested in some statistics, my recent work was a 640 page book with a graph or two on almost every page. I was using the Adobe Illustrator...
Erik Margan
Erik.Margan@...
Dec 14, 2005 10:29 am
760
I forwarded a samply that demonstrates the problem for some graphics and not others (all vector graphics) to Simon. This was the display issue on WinXP, SP2....
... An interesting viewpoint. I first noticed the problem when I changed from my printer to Distiller to see what would happen with the .PDF. I have a major...
... Yes, I saw this for the first time yesterday when I reviewed a file in preparation for generating my message. Something Bill Davis did not address is that...
I have a need for a procedure to translate EXP documents to ones in Microsoft Word & MathType. I am making a third edition of a textbook written in EXP and the...
Would your publisher accept a pdf document? I've recently converted some hairy EXP papers into pdf files using pdfFactory. pdfFactory isn't freeware, but...
All, I can assure everyone that there is NOT a bug in EXP 5.1 with regards to EMF file processing. I already investigated this issue some time ago. Here is ...
Hello All, If one has Adobe Acrobat it's extremely easy to convert EXP documents into (beautiful) *.pdf documents. I know this requires one to bear the high...
Peter Vanderschraaf
pvanderschraaf@...
Dec 14, 2005 10:14 pm
767
... Simon, the whole reason I upgraded to 5.1 was so that I could use .EMF files rather than .WMF files! How about providing us a switch that turns off the...
If you are using a 2-up display, try the 1-up display. That seems to help in many cases, depending on the machine. As Simon has indicated, this seems to be a...
Rich Shavi & All: The lack of a simple means of converting EXP documents to MS documents is the most serious drawback to EXP for me. I frequently get involved...
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