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ptc-21887191-Visitor
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January 31, 2012
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Plot title text gets destroyed.

  • January 31, 2012
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I am using Mathcad 14 but save the files in Mathcad Version 12 to avoid backward compatability issues for students taking my class. I find that the text used for plot titles frequently gets messed up - usually printing out a series of ramdom greek leters. Even after going back a correcting the text, at some point the lable tet gets messed up again. I have attached a file that illustrates the point - see the title of the first plot.

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Fred_Kohlhepp23-Emerald I
23-Emerald I
January 31, 2012

Version 12 was the worst version of Mathcad in recent history.

Try saving back to version 11 (which was, until version 15) the last best version. That may correct the problem or may not.

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VladimirN24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 1, 2012

But could you provide (for testing) this file saved for Mathcad 14 version (without this issue)?

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
February 1, 2012

I am afraid some things just can't be saved backwards well, and one of them is, under certain circumstances, the text on plots. Version 14 and 15 support full Unicode in such text, version 12 does not. If you stick to simple ASCII text it should save OK though. What did the title originally say?

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ptc-21887191-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 1, 2012

The first plot should have read:

"Response of Closed Form Exponential Sequence"

The same file save in version 14 format cam be downloaded at:

http://www.ece.uidaho.edu/ee/classes/ECE476/MathcadFiles/L6-7.xmcd

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RichardJ19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
February 1, 2012

Well, that is strange. There iare no unusual characters in the title, and the corrupted title contains more characters than the original.

Which version of 14 are you using?

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AlanStevens19-Tanzanite
19-Tanzanite
February 1, 2012

It also happens if saved from M15 and if saved back to M11 (though not to M13).

The problem is the length of the title. Shorten the titles and everything works ok - see attached, which has been saved in M12 format. If you must have a longer title you'll need to do something like write it as text outside the graph and drag that onto the graph.

Alan

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