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June 5, 2012
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MathCad 14 strange formatting issues...

  • June 5, 2012
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Hey all, I've got some strange issue I've never had before. I'm used to Mathcad15 or Prime2.0 so I'm rusty on 14's issues. I normally back-up files at the end of the day and I forgot this one. Well, long story short I spell-checked this 15 page sheet and was about to print it out and drop it in our network drive to back it up and the whole sheet compressed to one page! I've NEVER seen this! I'm at a loss about how to correct it. Any help would be MUCH appreciated! I've attached the sheet but be forewarned it is extremely slow and may crash MathCad so save anything YOU have open first!

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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
23-Emerald V
June 5, 2012

That's a real fun error! It appears, from a quick scan, that your regions have all been saved with top, bottom, left and right positions divided by about a 1000. Unless PTC or somebody else has a utility (or other means of correcting the numbers), the only thing that suggests itself off the top of my head is to hunt through each region for the position and size attributes and re-scale them.

Stuart

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ptc-46144321-VisitorAuthor
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June 5, 2012

Yes! it has been a fun error! So far my progress has been to seperate each region (one per page) but I end up with hundreds of pages so its taking a long time to manualy correct the size and drag them to the correct location. Thank you for looking through it! I got upgraded to MathCad15 now thankfully!

Thanks again!

Dan

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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
23-Emerald V
June 5, 2012

I suggest that it's a scaling error on M14's part. Probably the easiest (in the long term!) way to 'edit' the worksheet is to write a function (in Mathcad or other language of choice) and hunt for the positions and sizes in each region and multiply by 1000 before rewriting the worksheet.

Stuart

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
June 6, 2012

Did you sent this issue to PTC's technical support?

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ptc-46144321-VisitorAuthor
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June 6, 2012

I haven't yet but I will be doing that today. IT at my company is looking into it but I'm guess they won't spend too much time on it. Mine looks exactly like your image there. I've been trying to do what Stuart suggested but I can't access the actual program itself since it's off my company network and I can't access/modify any software....just use it.

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StuartBruff23-Emerald V
23-Emerald V
June 6, 2012

I see what Vladimir sees as well, Dan. It had an 'interesting' side effect in that, after closing your worksheet, it made my cross-hair cursor about 20 times bigger and rescaled the graphics in another open worksheet when I saved that sheet. An inspection of one of the other parameters showed a dpi of ~2000000 in you worksheet. (normally 96!)

Can you save the worksheet as something else locally?

Stuart

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