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DJNewman
DJNewman18-Opal
18-Opal
April 8, 2025
Question

Insert Object (image file) behaviour across operating systems

  • April 8, 2025
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I want to update my blog on different methods of inserting images in Mathcad Prime because there is an update in Mathcad Prime 11 that changes it dramatically. Since I wrote that, I'm on Windows 11 now on my work laptop, which has Mathcad Prime 10.0.1.0 and Mathcad Prime 11 installed.

My personal PC is on Windows 10 (many say I need to get a new PC within six months...) and has a copy of Mathcad Prime 10.0.0.0 on it.

 

Whenever I'm inserting an image via Insert Object (OLE, Ctrl + Shift + O) on my Windows 11 laptop, it no longer actually shows a thumbnail of the image no matter what image type I use and no matter what my default app for images is. It's just the generic box with the file name in it. On Windows 10 for 10.0.0.0 and I'm pretty sure for 10.0.1.0 before my work laptop got upgraded, it would just embed the image file by actually showing the image file.

 

I don't think anything happened on the Mathcad side to change this, and that it's a Windows thing, but can someone else try and see what happens, and say your operating system and Mathcad Prime version number?

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Werner_E25-Diamond I
25-Diamond I
April 8, 2025

Still Win 10 and still Prime 10 and I can confirm that I see the picture itself in the Prime document. Just tried using a Paint as the app.

And yes, I am also told that I would need a new machine soon, but I will try to follow a description on how to install Win11 on machine which M$ thinks are not modern enough. Not sure if it will work out OK, though.

 

EDIT: I should add that when inserting an already existing picture from a file, no thumbnail is shown in Prime so that's quite useless. Tried it with PNG, BMP and JPG. Only when I create it from anew by choosing the app, the picture is seen after closing the app.

DJNewman
DJNewman18-OpalAuthor
18-Opal
April 8, 2025

Yeah, I've read a guide on how to override Microsoft saying your PC isn't modern enough for Windows 11 because my AMD processor (AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad-Core Processor... which is not at all a bad professor) isn't supported for Windows 11.
Sure, my PC is 7 years old, but it still runs perfectly fine. Not slow or anything.

 

As for the Mathcad Prime, I guess I need to get Prime 11 on my Windows 10 and test it there, as well as I'm wondering if anyone on Windows 11 can get the image files to display in any version of Prime.

PTC Marketer Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
April 9, 2025

Hi,

Windows 10 & Mathcad Prime 11.0.0.0

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21-Topaz II
terryhendicott21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 9, 2025

Hi

Processor AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor, 3401 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 32 Logical Processor(s)
OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version 1 0.0.22621 Build 22621

 

Prime 10.0.1.0

 

Result depends on file type

*.png gets box with name using Ctrl Shift O

using insert image shows the same image

*.jpg get image using Ctrl Shift O

Capture.JPG

Capture2.JPG

Cheers

Terry

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21-Topaz II
terryhendicott21-Topaz II
21-Topaz II
April 9, 2025

Hi,

I'd like to refine my answer. after a bit of research.

Ctrl Shift 0 gets up a dialog box with two radio buttons: Create New and Create from File.

 

Create from File gets the box with a name..

Create New then select Paint Brush Picture, Select from file,  Close Paint Brush gets the picture.

Cheers

Terry

    DJNewman
    DJNewman18-OpalAuthor
    18-Opal
    May 16, 2025

    I finally got the product code for Prime 11 for my Windows 10 PC!

     

    Annnnd yeah, Insert Object for image files embeds beautifully in Mathcad Prime 11 there, as it has in previous versions. Linked files work as expected, too.

     

    So! ...Microsoft ruined it.

     

    I'll add to the Mathcad YouTube channel list of ideas of developing a sequel YouTube video to our Insert Object video that doesn't exclusively use image files as examples...

    PTC Marketer Creo and Mathcad. I run their YouTube channels, some Creo campaigns, and all Mathcad campaigns and communications.
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