I'am also a big MATH-SYMBOSS! 2010/4/16 Andreas <[email protected]>: > Bump. > > I can see Greek characters fine but large braces, arrow, and a math > symbos (such as \partial) show up as black diamonds with question marks. > > Adding Symbol -> OpenSymbol in the font replacement table does not fix > this (perhaps the characters involved are actually from a different > windows font, or those characters are missing from OpenSymbol?). Perhaps > also this is a character encoding problem (don't know if utf-8 or utf-16 > are used / supported by both powerpoint and OOo Impress). > > I agree with the posts above, it's a total showstopper for me, since > sadly collaborators / bosses / secretaries use Windows / Macs which come > with MS office. > > -- > [upstream] MathType formulas messed up and not converted in Open Office > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256876 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Confirmed > Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > OpenOffice Writer does not show and convert MathType equations correctly. > When the .doc file containing MathType 5 formulas is opened in OO, all > symbols of integrals, derivatives, sums etc. are missed or substituted by > funny characters. As a result the formulas are messed up completely. The > formulas are not converted to OO Math, but shown as figures (not editable) > even if "convert math from/to MathType" option is selected. > > This bug seems to be ubuntu-specific. Original bug sent to OO team was not > reproduced > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg396313.html). However, > it was confirmed in Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10alpha, but not in Mandriva Spring > (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=872833). > The bug exists even when the deb package provided on the OO.o website is used > instead of the ubuntu repos version. > > This bug is really critical for people, who exchange documents with formulas > with collaborators using MSWord+MathType. > > The test file can be found in original bug report > (http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg396313.html). > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/256876/+subscribe >
-- Claus Wimmer Steinern Straße 44 55246 Mainz Kostheim Handy: 01520 143 8758 Inet-Tel.: 01801 555 777 1490 http://www.glesir.de/~claus -- [upstream] MathType formulas messed up and not converted in Open Office https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
