Hello Everyone,We are thrilled to introduce the new MathML feature in InDesign. Now, you can easily create, style, and edit math expressions with the new MathML panel. Seamlessly integrate complex equations into your documents, styled to match your text. Perfect for scientific and academic content! Insert a math expression Create or open any InDesign document and select Object > Insert MathML. Add the MathML code in the MathML Input section. Select the Preview Expression icon to see the expression in the Expression Preview section. Select Place. Your math expression is placed as an SVG file in your document. You can anchor it just like any other SVG.5. Update the Font Size and Fill color (including document colors) in the Math Expressions panel to match the rest of your document. Edit a math expression 1. Right-click the math expression and select Edit MathML. 2. Update the MathML code in the MathML Input section. 3. Select the Preview Expression icon to see the updated expression in the Expression Preview section. 4. Select Save. For more details, please click here. If this was helpful, please click the Upvote icon in the top left corner of this post. Your feedback helps us improve the experience. Thank you! Have questions? Click 'Reply' below to ask. Click 'Follow' below to bookmark this post for easy reference.

Abhishek Rao

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Adobe InDesign MAX Release: MathML Support to create math expressions

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October 14, 2024
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Hello Everyone,

We are thrilled to introduce the new MathML feature in InDesign. Now, you can easily create, style, and edit math expressions with the new MathML panel. Seamlessly integrate complex equations into your documents, styled to match your text. Perfect for scientific and academic content!

Insert a math expression

Create or open any InDesign document and select Object > Insert MathML.
Add the MathML code in the MathML Input section.
Select the Preview Expression icon to see the expression in the Expression Preview section.
Select Place. Your math expression is placed as an SVG file in your document. You can anchor it just like any other SVG.
5. Update the Font Size and Fill color (including document colors) in the Math Expressions panel to match the rest of your document.

Edit a math expression

1. Right-click the math expression and select Edit MathML.

2. Update the MathML code in the MathML Input section.

3. Select the Preview Expression icon to see the updated expression in the Expression Preview section.

4. Select Save.

For more details, please click here.

If this was helpful, please click the Upvote icon in the top left corner of this post. Your feedback helps us improve the experience. Thank you!

Have questions? Click 'Reply' below to ask.

Click 'Follow' below to bookmark this post for easy reference.

Wilfred_Springer

Participant

Instead of using Adobe’s MathML support, I have been successfully using Claude and two Claude extensions: one capable of generating SVG from LaTeX formulas, and another (Sidekick) that connects Claude directly to InDesign, allowing Claude to do the heavy-lifting.

It works brilliantly. I basically give it a Markdown file with embedded LaTeX formulas, and all I ask is that you place that Markdown file in my InDesign file. Claude is exporting the LaTeX formulas to SVG, placing text with placeholders in the files in my InDesign document, and then replacing those placeholders with placed and anchored SVGs.

You can read a blog post about it here.

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Punkylex

Participating Frequently

To me this feature is incomplete and almost useless without the ability to import properly math equations from Word documents. All my costumers prefer using this tool to write their textbooks rather than using LaTex or MathML. So, recomposing equations (a job you’ll have to charge to your costumer) which have already been composed in an other app is very counterproductive and difficult to justify economically.

jctremblay

Community Expert

There is a [really nice] script by Roland Dreger for InDesign that can import Word document and create the document math equations found in the doc. Give it a try.

https://github.com/RolandDreger/indesign-word-import

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Punkylex

Participating Frequently

Thank you very much! I will study and try it right now.

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MagimaiDas

Participant

I’m having trouble working with MathML in InDesign 2025. Even with help from the third-party MathType extension, I’m still not able to handle math content smoothly in this version. Some MathML elements don’t render as expected, especially when working on MathML-based projects.

Could you please clarify whether full MathML and math automation support is 100% implemented in InDesign 2025?
Or should I wait for an upcoming update or future version that offers complete math automation?

jctremblay

Community Expert

One of the issue with MathML is when you need to specify the color in CMYK or a Spot Color. MathML expressions in InDesign are SVG internally and SVG are RGB only. To workaround this limitations (for print) you can use the script MathML Magic Painter I have create.

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Acrobat can convert RGB colors to CMYK while converting RGB black to 100K. Of course, the conversion is best left to a commercial printer*, so you should talk to them about that.

*If outputing at a quick-print shop (high-end laster printers) or your own laser printers, you shouldn't have to worry about any conversion.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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Stellar_Wonderland5049

Participating Frequently

Adobe InDesign 2025 now supports MathML, allowing you to create, style, and edit math expressions directly within your documents.

🔢 How it works:

Go to Object > Insert MathML
Paste your MathML code and preview the expression
Click Place to insert it as an SVG
Style using the Math Expressions panel

You can also right-click to edit expressions later. Ideal for academic and scientific content!

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mikael_6520

Participant

Hi, it's a very good thing, I was waiting for it, but...
How could we change the font ?
How could we change the color of each symbol in the equation ?
Best regards
Mikael

Anubhav M

Community Manager

Hello @mikael_6520,

InDesign currently lacks this functionality. Would you mind creating a UserVoice for this feature request (https://adobe.ly/4lEYO1R) and adding your comments there? Doing this will help us prioritize this request, and you will be notified of any updates.

Feel free to reach out if you have more questions or need assistance. We'd be happy to help.

Anubhav

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ElenaHadj

Participating Frequently

I am designing a technical book in indesign full of equations. It takes too long because I do them manually. I found out about the MathML feature but I can´t use it because I don´t know how to write the code. Is there another way to create the equations in any of the Adobe programmes and bring them in indesign? I received the equations in powerpoint and I can´t copy and paste them. Please help!

Dave Creamer of IDEAS

Community Expert

Did you try googling "indesign math plugins"?

Try it and research the products that are. listed.

David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)

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ElenaHadj

Participating Frequently

ok I will, thank you

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brotherb54239633

Participating Frequently

great, now that you have introduced new buggy features that LaTex was able to handle in the 80s can you please address your bugs, interface issues, software bloat, slop, bad UX choices, annoying popups that can't be turned off, cross-compatibility between IL ID or IL Ae, or any number of other products that used to work together. oh and also can you not constantly check licensing and making me wait to open apps several times per day when I pay for them on a yearly basis?

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James_smith6112

Participant

looks good

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Florian Zech

Participant

I find it very commendable that Adobe is implementing MathML into the program. It is a step in the right direction, even though the tool will not yet meet the requirements for scientific typesetting at the time of release. I see the following points as necessary to eliminate the need for third-party programs in the long term:

Editability of formulas with respect to text, color, spacing/kerning, line representation and line thickness, as well as glyph selection.
2. Introduction of (object) styles for formulas that store these settings, enabling more efficient workflows for extensive works.
3. Support for CMYK and spot colors for print output.
4. Editability of the formula in plain text for more user-friendly handling.
5. Proper tagging and passing of MathML code as alternative text for output in ePub and PDF/UA.

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