I concur to what Alan says. Equations is what this program was written for in the first place. I'm not so familiar with MathType but I think the user should get more familiar with Frame Equations as it is pretty obvious he underestimates them.
Michael >From: Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> >To: framers at frameusers.com >Subject: Re: Importing MathType equations to FM 7.2 >Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:57:06 +1200 > > >On 7/04/2007, at 7:33 AM, Brad Anderson wrote: > >>On Apr 6, 2007, at 10:31 AM, Gabrielle Burns wrote: >> >>>I am using MathType 5 to create equations (the FM equation editor is not >>>robust enough), > >What do you mean? Can you be more specific please. I have never had a >problem with it causing crashes, or with equations not displaying >correctly. > >>>saving them as *.gif files, and importing them to FM into an >>>anchored frame. The issue is that the text elements and sub/ superscripts >>>look fuzzy. They look even worse after converting to Adobe PDF. > >As others have said, GIF is not a print format. It is a screen only >format. > >>> >>>I also tried saving the MathType file as *.eps (an archived message >>>indicated this was possible). FM 7.2 does not accept importing *.eps >>>into an >>>anchored frame. > >Yes it does. And GIF, PDF, WMF, EMF, ... Have you tried using a different >format? > >>>I tried copying the equation from MathType and pasting it >>>into FM. > >Something I have always found that results in problems. MathType is not >the same program as FM and will use different internal commands to create >its files. > >>>It accepts the text and super/subscripts, but not the symbols. > >That stands to reason. The text are characters and can be copied as such >onto the clip board. The symbols are probably drawn by MathType and exist >as a series of commands within the program until the file is exported as >some interchange format like EPS or PDF. So copying and pasting from >MathType is not the same as exporting to a file and importing into FM. > >>>In the meantime, the engineers I support are quite displeased with the >>>Adobe >>>rendering of equations. > >There are few who do it better. > >>>My concern is the possibility of having to return to >>>Microsoft Word, which supports MathType. Thank you. > >That is always your choice. You should not blame us, Adobe or anyone else >for you the choices you make. > >Alan >_______________________________________________ > > >You are currently subscribed to Framers as biozaichenko at hotmail.com. > >Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to >framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com >or visit >http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/biozaichenko%40hotmail.com > >Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit >http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _________________________________________________________________ Del dine store filer uden problemer p? MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.dk/
