MathReader: Mathematica's Notebook Reader

To use the latest version of MathReader

Go to the MathReader site.

To use the version of MathReader on the CD

Select the platform you need.

• MathReader for Windows 95/NT

  Follow these steps.

  • To install MathReader 3.0 on your system, do one one of the following:
    • Click on the Start button, then the Run... button, and then the Browse... button. The file to run is estroyan/SETUPEX.EXE on the CD.
    • Click on the file setupex.exe and store on your hard drive. Then double-click on this file.

  • Note that if you already have Mathematica installed, you do not need to install MathReader 3.0 to view Mathematica notebook files. If you still want to install MathReader, you should note that file associations will change on your system so that files with the extension ".nb" will be opened by MathReader 3.0 when you double-click them. To change the association back to Mathematica, run the Mathematica installer again. If you uninstall MathReader 3.0 and experience problems with fonts in Mathematica 3.0, reinstall the Mathematica fonts by running the Mathematica 3.0 installer.

  • Optional: Configure your browser to automatically launch MathReader when you retrieve a Mathematica notebook.
    • Select Preferences from the Options menu.
    • Select Helper Applications from the bar at the top of the window you just opened.
    • Click the New button inside the window.
    • Enter application as the MIME type, and mathematica as the MIME sub-type. Press return.
    • Enter .nb in the Extensions box.
    • Under the Action menu, select Launch Application.
    • Click the Browse button, then select the MathReader application you just downloaded.
    • Press enter to close the window, then select Save Options from the Preferences menu to save everything you've done to the Netscape configuration file.

• MathReader for Macintosh
  • To install MathReader 3.0 on your system, download either MathReader.68k or MathReader.PPC (for the Power Macintosh native version). If you are not sure, or want a single version that will run on both Macintosh and Power Macintosh computers, choose MathReader.68k.

  • Verify that this file was un-BinHexed correctly. You can use Stuffit Expander to un-BinHex the file manually.

  • Double-click the resulting installer application to install MathReader 3.0 on your computer.

  • If you experience problems with fonts when printing or pasting into other applications, you should install the Mathematica fonts into your machine's Fonts folder. Drag the font suitcase found at "Mathematica 3.0 Files:SystemFiles:Fonts:Macintosh:MathFonts" into your "Disk:System Folder:Fonts:" folder.

  • Optional: Configure your browser to automatically launch MathReader when you retrieve a Mathematica notebook. (The following instructions are not yet in synch with 3.0--for example, it uses .ma as the file extension for notebooks, not .nb as it should.)
    • Select Preferences from the Options menu.
    • Select Helper Applications from the bar at the top of the window you just opened.
    • Click the New button inside the window.
    • Enter application as the MIME type, and mathematica as the MIME sub-type. Press return.
    • Enter .ma in the Extensions box.
    • Under the Action menu, select Launch Application.
    • Click the Browse button, then select the MathReader application you just downloaded.
    • Press enter to close the window, then select Save Options from the Options menu to save everything you've done to the Netscape configuration file.

Permission obtained from Wolfram to distribute MathReader on this CD.