DocX files from Word 2007

[Guest]

These are a horrible mess when I import them into Frame 8. Half the file is formatted wit Courier font. I have the Word 2003 compatibility pack installed and saving the file down to Word 2003 format doesn't help at all--still a frightful mess.

I am using Win XP and have the latest patches.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[MichaelKazlow]

Just say no to docx is the easiest.

You can try to save to an earlier Word format or rtf. If you Word file
doesn't use unicode specific features, I'd recommend saving as ascii. I
always find that Frame imports from Word have tainted formating that is
hard to remove.

Mike

[Guest]

Um, that means saying No to my employer, with the side effect of saying No to my paycheck.

The problem is that equations saved down to Word 2003 are totally garbled and missing characters. And we have a lot of equations.

[MichaelKazlow]

Ok, tell your employer not yet. The workflow is not perfected. If
equations are the issue have they been created with Microsoft Equation
OR Mathtype or some other utility.

Mike

[Guest]

Some authors use MathType and some Word's Equation editor. Equations created in Word 2007 drop characters when saved down to Word 2003. Fun!

[MichaelKazlow]

The question is it Mathtype or MS Equations that are suffering through
the problem. Mathtype gives you a method of converting all equations to
Mathtype Equations.

Mike

[Guest]

The original problem stemmed from Word's own equation editor.

[MichaelKazlow]

Then without hesitation, I would use Mathtype to convert all equations
to Mathtype equations with a single command. That might solve the problem.

Mike

[_thomas_bro_]

And even better: Save all MathType Equations as EPS and import them as images into FM.

Then you do not have to worry about missings characters at all.

keep smiling
thomas

[Guest]

Big surprise, though. Characters drop out of those eps files when opened and printed on another machine. MathType doesn't embed the characters correctly between the two versions. We already had this problem and had to switch the author to Word 2003.

[_thomas_bro_]

Well (not a big surprise).

How did you produce them?
Embed or not embedded fonts?
Converting fonts to outlines?
What happens if you distill them (EPS) into PDF's
If these PDF's are OK, try to import these into FM

Did you print them on a PostScript printer?

keep smiling
thomas

[Guest]

The author saved out the eps files from MathType in Word 2007. I received these,placed them in the chapter, and returned pdfs to the production manager. Many of the equation symbols were missing. The author had to redo the equations in Word 2003. More than that, I don't know.

I work for a publisher, and we actually print nothing. We send the pdfs to a book printer company.

[Arnis Gubins]

Sue,

FYI, MathType just embeds the font reference in the EPS files and that
puts the onus on the end-user to have the correct fonts on their
system (and Distiller knows where to find them) when creating the
output.