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At the end of the worksheet path type “#” followed by the region tag. The complete path for your target region will look like this: C:\filename#region tag. If you are in the same file, the path to another region will look like this: #region tag. Note that you must include the #.
Note You cannot use the popup window option when you link from region to region within or between Mathcad worksheets.
Creating Hyperlinks to Other Files
You can create a hyperlink not only from one Mathcad worksheet to another, but also from a Mathcad worksheet to any other file type. Use this feature to create E-books or compound documents that can contain spreadsheets, animation files, even Web pages.
Note Double-clicking a hyperlink to another file type launches either the application that created the file or an application associated with a file of that type in the Windows Registry. However, only Mathcad files can be made into popup windows.
Distributing Your Worksheets
Mathcad worksheets can be distributed in a variety of media including the Internet, through email, in print format, and, of course, as individual Mathcad documents or as a Mathcad E-book. You can also print Mathcad worksheets to PDF files if you have the appropriate applications.
Printing
To print a Mathcad worksheet, choose Print from the File menu. The Print dialog box lets you control whether to print the entire worksheet, selected pages, or selected regions. The particular dialog box you see depends on the printer you’ve selected.
Printing Wide Worksheets
Mathcad worksheets can be wider than a sheet of paper, since you can scroll as far to the right as you like in a Mathcad worksheet and place equations, text, and graphics wherever you like. As you scroll horizontally, however, you see gray vertical lines appearing to indicate the right margins of successive “pages” corresponding to the settings for your printer. The sections of the worksheet separated by the gray vertical lines print on separate sheets of paper, yet the page number at the bottom of the Mathcad window does not change as you scroll to the right.
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You can think of the worksheet as being divided into vertical strips. Mathcad begins printing at the top of each strip and continues until it reaches the last region in this strip. It prints successive strips left to right. Note that certain layouts will produce one or more blank pages.
Tip You can control whether a wide worksheet is printed in its entirety or in a single page width. To do so, choose Page Setup from the File menu to open the Page Setup dialog box. To prevent printing anything to the right of the right margin, check “Print single page width.”
Tip You can customize the display of some operators including the :=, the bold equals, the derivative operator, and the multiplication operator. Before you print, choose Worksheet Options from the Tools menu and click on the Display tab to change the appearance of these operators for people unfamiliar with Mathcad notation.
Print Preview
To check your worksheet’s layout before printing, choose Print Preview from the File
menu or click |
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on the Standard toolbar. The Mathcad window shows the current |
section of your worksheet in miniature, as it will appear when printed, with a strip of buttons across the top of the window:
Tip You can use the “Zoom In” and “Zoom Out” buttons to magnify the worksheet or you can magnify the worksheet by moving the cursor onto the page so that the cursor changes to a magnifying glass then click the mouse. Click again to magnify your worksheet even more. Once you’re at the maximum magnification, clicking on the page de-magnifies it.
You cannot edit the current page or change its format in the Print Preview screen. To edit the page or change its format, return to the normal view by clicking “Close.”
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Creating PDF Files
You can save documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF). Once a PDF printer driver is installed, choose Print and select the PDF driver from your list of printers. Then choose “Print to File” in the Print dialog box to create a PDF file that can be distributed as is or further manipulated in Acrobat Distiller.
Creating E-books
As described in Chapter 3, “Online Resources,” an E-book is a hyperlinked collection of Mathcad worksheets. When you open an E-book in Mathcad, it opens in its own window. An E-book has a table of contents, an index, a browse order, and search features accessible through buttons on the toolbar in the E-book window. The worksheets in an E-book are live, so a reader can experiment directly within the book.
Online Help For details about each step of creating a Mathcad E-book, see the online Author’s Reference under the Help menu. It includes tips and techniques for turning a collection of worksheets into a navigable book.
After you have created an E-book, others can open it in Mathcad and navigate through it using the toolbar buttons of the E-book window. For more information on E-books and the navigation tools, refer to Chapter 3, “Online Resources.”
Creating Web Pages and Sites
Mathcad worksheets can be output as HTML files for viewing in a Web browser. There are a variety of options for specifying how worksheet regions are represented in HTML files. All Mathcad text regions are output as standard HTML, but you must choose the format in which you would like equations, graphs, and other types of regions to be stored on a Web page.
Choose Save as Web Page from the File menu to save a file in HTML format. Once you have chosen a file name and location to store your file, click Save, and a dialog presents you with a set of options for saving your file:
Options for Web Page Output
Choose a format for image export, either JPEG or PNG. PNG is a lossless format and may result in clearer images for graphs and drawings, while JPEG format may create
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smaller files or be more compatible with older browser versions. All graphs, embedded images, tables, and equations are displayed as images in the output HTML document.
Fixed or Relative Positioning and Templates
Choose whether a document uses relative or fixed layout when exported to HTML. When Save Layout As is set to Relative, regions are stored as an HTML table that attempts to retain the relative horizontal and vertical placement of your regions. This arrangement makes it possible to edit the Web page outside of Mathcad to include additional HTML content — navigation links, images, and so on. This attribute must be selected to use HTML templates.
When the Relative button is selected, you can browse for an HTML template file. Templates are used to wrap HTML content exported from a Mathcad file. You can use them to add headers, footers, navigation links, and images, creating a uniform layout for many files that facilitate large Web site production. Template files must be saved with MLT extensions and use the same structure as the HTMLtemplate.mlt sample file that appears in your Template folder within the Mathcad program folder. Note that MLT templates are output templates.
If you choose the Fixed option, each Mathcad region image or block of text is precisely positioned on a Web page, mimicking the original Mathcad document as closely as possible, but making it difficult to add new items to the page outside of Mathcad. For further instructions and tips on publishing Web sites with Mathcad, see the online Author’s Reference under the Help menu in Mathcad.
Finally, you can choose a new title for your page, then open the page immediately in your default Web browser.
You can also save Mathcad documents in HTML by choosing Save As from the File menu and selecting “HTML File (*.htm)” from the “Save as type” drop-down list. You will not see the special properties dialog shown above. Options for HTML can be set by choosing Preferences from the Tools menu, and modifying choices on the “HTML Options” tab.
Note When you save a Mathcad worksheet in HTML format, an HTM file is created plus a folder with the name “[filename]_images” that contains all the associated image files. When copying files to your server, don’t forget to include the associated image folder.
Saving Your Worksheet to Microsoft Word
To save a worksheet so you can distribute it in Microsoft Word:
1.Scroll to the bottom of your worksheet to update all calculated results or choose
Calculate > Calculate Worksheet from the Tools menu or press [Ctrl] [F9].
2.Choose Save As from the File menu.
3.In the Save As dialog box, choose “Rich Text Format File (.rtf)” from the “Save as type” drop-down list.
4.Enter a file name and then click “Save.”
When you open an .RTF file with Microsoft Word, you can edit the text. However, you are no longer able to edit math regions and graphs, which have become pictures. The