Using Design Science's MathFlow components with FDK9

[Ackanf]

Hello all

Has anyone tried to use MathFlow components to import editable MathML equations to a FM9 document by means of FDK ?

I managed to display editable EPS MathType equations, but quality is not good enough to me, and I should probably meet charset problems in the future if I used it.

Since the equations I have to display are captured with MathFlow on Arbortext Epic Editor, I think I should not have any charset problems when using MathFlow components...

But is it possible ? And if so, how ?...

Thanks a lot.

Franck

[Arnis Gubins]

By "quality" of the EPS are you referring to the image displayed on screen? If so, then are you aware that this is only a low-res preview image in the EPS file. If you create a PDF, you will see a properly rendered high-res version. Also note, if you are printing directly from FM to a non-postscript device, then you will only the get the low-res preview.

Regarding MathType possible character set issues, the generated EPS files only include the font references (i.e. they do not have the used characters embedded), so you must have your Distiller component properly configured to know where the MathType fonts are located.

Another possible method of getting MathML into FM is to do a two-step via the Maple package (http://www.maplesoft.com), which has a maple2mif plug-in with the source code available here: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/software/maple/5.3/share/maple2mif

[Ackanf]

Indeed, vector arrows placed above a char string are displayed and printed in high res with extra spaces between characters, and a dashed arrow (although equation is OK in MathType window).

This is neither a preview problem, nor a config one I think.

Maple2mif you mention seems an interesting direction.

Thank you.