Exporting Grapher documents into Pages

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Level 1

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Exporting Grapher documents into Pages

I've tried to insert a Grapher document into a Pages '09 document; the image was awful! No matter what format I used (TIFF, PDF, JPEG) to export the Grapher file, the image in Pages '09 was unusable.

The manual by Yves Barois is excellent for learning to use Grapher in the first place, but he does not go into detail about exporting the graphs for use in a text document.

Would this be any better in Pages 5.1?

Thank you in advance for your help!

OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)

Posted on Feb 9, 2014 8:12 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 9, 2014 9:41 AM in response to DandelionJoy

Copying and pasting the graphs or formulae should have got you sharp vector pdfs.

Peter

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Answer 2

YB24

Level 2

267 points

Feb 9, 2014 5:35 PM in response to DandelionJoy

To DandelionJoy,

Bonjour,

I tried this just a faw minutes ago :

• open an old Grapher file (curve thickness 2.0) ;

• restore the original graph size and ordinate scale (W=801 H=555 points, Oy -50 to +10) ;

• right click on the graph > Copy > PDF ;

• open Pages 4.3 from iWork '09 > choose my template “Landscape, margins L 1 - R 1 - Up 0,5 - Down 0,5 centimeters“ ;

• then Paste. No adjustment was necessary because the graph size is optimized for the A4 paper format used here.

The result was perfect as shown in the attachment file (if Apple allows it).

Thanks for your comment about the “Instructions for Use - Grapher“. I wrote some notes about exporting the graphs on Page 62 English and French edition december 15th 2013.

You should give a lot more details about how you made your copy-paste : Graph size, thickness of curves etc., or provide a post with a picture file in attachment (please note graph width, height, ordinate scale).

Au revoir,

YB24

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Answer 3

DandelionJoy Author

Level 1

6 points

Feb 16, 2014 9:32 AM in response to YB24

Thank you for your help! It won't let me check "This solved my question" to your reply, but both responses together worked!

I was creating an image file, which is the first on page 62 in your list of possible export methods. I should have moved on to copying the image onto the clipboard, which is the next in your list on page 62. I was in too much of a hurry! Copying the image worked just fine, as you say.

Here are the dimensions:

height: 150 pt

width: 150 pt

line thickness: 1 pt

ordinate scale: -0.15 - 0.15

equation: y = A cos (t/T (2π))

T = 1

This was part of a lesson to teach my students the connection between uniform circular motion and simple harmonic motion. I need to have some small graphs for illustration, and some large ones for them to work on, and Pages charts do not create sinusoidal trend lines.

Do I understand correctly that I must add a rectangle object in order to title the axes?

DandelionJoy

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Answer 4

YB24

Level 2

267 points

Feb 16, 2014 6:07 PM in response to DandelionJoy

@ DandelionJoy

Bonjour,

Your last post :

I don't mind about "This solved my question" awards, points etc. I'm no more a child… unfortunately ! What is important : a useful help, that's all.

About page 62 list : I did not add a comment for each process, as good, bad. The users must try and choose the best way…

Changing the names of axes : select an axis (one click) > open Inspector > uncheck the Label box, that remove x or other ones. > menu Object > Insert Text > Type the new name > set size and move the text box to the right place.

The coordinate name cannot be changed in the equations : only x, y, z, r, r0, theta, phi, as coordinate names.

Thanks for details of your Grapher work. I understand you want to illustrate the uniform circular motion. I just build a graph showing a point on a circle and another on a sine curve, both moving period T = 10 s, time value displayed on graph. It's a Grapher .gcx.zip of 78 Ko. I animated the parameter time and made a QuickTime .mov.zip file of 3,7 Mo. (static image in attachment). If you want to use these files, send me an e-mail (address on the last page of my website, no spam, no advertising).

Enjoy,

YB24

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