Documentation Publicon User Guide Getting Started

Notebooks

Notebook files

Publicon documents are called notebooks. They combine text, typeset equations, graphics, animations, and sounds in an integrated file format (denoted by .nb). Notebooks are saved as 7-bit ASCII, not as binary files. The file can use either CR, LF, or CR/LF newlines. Consequently, notebooks are platform independent, so they can be used unchanged on any computer system that supports Publicon. They are also extremely portable--they can be readily transmitted via email or exchanged via FTP.

Sharing notebooks with others

For colleagues without Publicon, MathReader is a free, read-only viewer for notebooks. It is available to download at www.wolfram.com/products/mathreader. When saving, choose File Save As Publicon Document with Style Sheet.

Notebooks and the web

Notebooks can be saved as HTML or XML files. Publicon notebooks can also be made available through the web. Simply give a link to the notebook file whose name has the standard .nb extension. Most web browsers can be configured to open any file with the extension .nb with Publicon.

Use the following settings to register Publicon as a helper application in your web browser.

With these settings, downloaded notebooks will automatically opened with Publicon.

See www.wolfram.com/publicon for the latest information on using Publicon with the web.

Using Publicon for presentations

To use Publicon for presentations, you can reset the View Screen Environment submenu to Presentation.

See Advanced Features: Slide Shows.

Printing or Saving Notebooks as PDF

Publicon does not yet include built-in support for saving documents as PDF, but most PDF creation utiltties such as Adobe Acrobat

To convert notebooks to PDF without using your own application, please visit the Wolfram Research demos page which includes a notebook to PDF conversion portal:
http://www.wolfram.com/products/webmathematica/examples/examples.html