Drag and Drop output
When you highlight an equation in Maple and drag it to another program, a word processor for example, a small image of it is produced. It would be great to be able to select the format and resolution of these images. Specifically, it would be nice to be able to choose from jpg, gif, or a pdf clipping, and to choose compression levels and resolution, whether or not to include a background mask (or just the text itself), and how much margin to add to the clipping. I love using Maple to do my calculations and prepare my equations, but prefer to use a dedicated word processor for writing reports. This results in a lot of drag and drop action. It would be great to have some way to tweak the formatting and quality.
The only other option right now, that I am aware of, is to convert expressions to LaTeX, then use an external program to edit and format them. This is a pain in the butt, considering how messy it can be to install a TeX distribution and get it working right. It would be better to have that all within Maple and avoid third party stuff entirely.
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HI,
I have been working many times with LaTeX. It's excellent when you write directly in the program (Scientific Workplace). When you try to import the LaTeX from Maple, I always have problems. So for the moment, I have two ways to deal with your problem.
The first one is what you are doing already. It's a pain in ...(you know where!) I agree with you that it would be nice to have more control over the output. For my part, I do all the work in Maple then Export it as *.rtf and then open it with Microsoft Word. But it's still images and you have no control.
The other way is to simply do it completely in Maple. You have paginations, image import, text, Code Edit Region (in the insert menu) and the Startup Code (in the Edit menu). I used to do in Word (with the help of MathType) . Now I do it in Maple and I think it's doing a good job. Of course, you cannot do the Table of Contents and the index automatically like in Word, but I think that Maple is going in that direction in a near future (that's my wish!).
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That's definitely an option,
That's definitely an option, and the more experienced users may prefer that. I've even considered diving into it myself. However, I've found document mode worksheets to be amazingly temperamental and difficult to work with. Exporting directly to a word processor (in my case, it's Pages '08 from Apple) gives additional flexibility and most importantly for students like myself, ease of use.
Naturally, different people find different methods easier/faster/more appealing, and it is simply smart to make it easy for as many people as practical.