4.30.2 Greatest hits from previous weeks

4.30.2.1 Mathematica 10.0.x freezes in Initializing kernels

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/92931/mathematica-10-0-x-freezes-in-initializing-kernels

 
Bug caused by paclet update and fixed by paclet update. 
 
 
 
I updated to Windows 10 and have been running Mathematica fine on it for over a month.  For some reason, it has just stopped working. I don't  ...
 

- asked by mitcheljh (73 votes), answered by ilian (95 votes)

4.30.2.2 Exporting graphics to PDF - huge file

https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/1542/exporting-graphics-to-pdf-huge-file

 
I want to draw some basic surfaces, export them to PDF and include them in a LaTeX file.  I create a simple 3D graphics object, for instance with 
 
ParametricPlot3D[{r Cos[], r Sin[], r^2}, {r, 0,  ...
 

- asked by Matthew Leingang (94 votes), answered by Heike (80 votes)