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boris_m25
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August 27, 2018
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Indesign CS6 + MathType

  • August 27, 2018
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Hi!

I need information is it possible to auto fill indesign with equations by replace the text in InDesign cs6. The story is next, we received the 200 pages book with about 500 equations, with mathtype I successfully extract equations and replace with text eg. (<<equations001.wmf>>), is it possible in some way to auto fill everything. Right now i don't look in options for style I will pay attention later about visual looking.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/EXiz2EHJUv1t6tZBA

On left side is the original document, on the right side is extracted equation with file name of the equation.

It's not problem to create some .csv table with links, but i think that data merge is not capable of doing this but it will be great if this is possible..

With regards,

Boris

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    Correct answer vladan saveljic

    I think this video explains just what you need

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBKbjrzIFU

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    MrMathType — Retired
    MrMathType — Retired
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    October 10, 2018

    I'm sorry I'm seeing this late; I was not notified of the post, or that it mentioned me. I wouldn't have had anything to add though, because vladan saveljic​ has already given some excellent advice, and it is the same as what I would have written. I think the major points are these:

    1. Don't use WMF; use EPS/none.
    2. It is possible to position the equations precisely, but to do it without a script requires doing it one at a time. The script Vladan recommended is not an expensive one (and it is not ours, but I recommend it). Only you can decide if you can afford it, but if it were me, it would be worth it if I had only one document to process.
    3. Sometimes even after you've done everything right, some symbols still come out wrong. Some of those cases are resolved by using a different font -- Euclid Extra in place of MT Extra, for example -- or by saving equations as PDF vice EPS. (MathType for Windows will not save PDF directly, but MathType for Mac will. On Windows, you have to use the PDF printer driver to get PDF equations.)

    Bob Mathews

    Wiris America, makers of MathType

      vladan saveljic
      vladan saveljicCorrect answer
      Inspiring
      August 27, 2018

      I think this video explains just what you need

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBKbjrzIFU

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      boris_m25Author
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      September 4, 2018

      Thnx for reply, right now don't have budget for buying script but this will be on my top 5 stuff to do.

      RIght know I have a problem with WMF files, they displaying badly inside the indesign, when I drag and drop inside the Word they work fine, I retype like 30 equation that Mathtype didn't pick up for export. And you can see from photo my problem.

      I find that when I unhook italic option, than start to dispay  what I need to see, but hey I need sometime italic /variable

      With EPS is even worse, if I print equation in PDF from Mathtype everything look fine. Gif after export look terible but export everything fine.

      Here is the video about italic

      Shared album - boris munk - Google Photos

      Only options how I can do Italic is with Style -> Other -> Specify Font and than chose Italic

      vladan saveljic
      vladan saveljic
      Inspiring
      September 5, 2018

      it's not the same you have all italic (math style) change to text style and than try.

      The big problem here is if you don't want italic you change to text, when you change everything break. If you untick the italic from styles than everything working.


      I have all italic for LC Greek

      in fact as I said before:

      ...I think the problem is that some symbols in your equation don't have the same style but some symbols have different style.

      For example in your post number 4 the first two greek letters mu have a different style than the third greek letter mu...

      vladan saveljic
      vladan saveljic
      Inspiring
      August 27, 2018

      There is a script (I think only for windows)

      Take a look here:

      Design Science: MathType Works With...

      ...

      If you do a lot of work in InDesign for Windows, and your work involves equations, you should consider purchasing MT-Script, a script that installs into InDesign and really makes your life easier.

      ....

      Check "Replace equations with file name" to replace equations in Word document into tags with file names ( << Eqn0001.eps >> or << Eqn0001.wmf >> ) and start processing.

      So you must get a folder with equations (for example, from Eqn0001.eps to Eqn1001.eps) and Word document with tags from << Eqn0001.eps >> to << Eqn1001.eps >> instead of MathType equations.

      Then start InDesign, import Word document with tags instead of equations and click "PLACE EQUATIONS INSTEAD OF TEXT WITH TAGS" in menu MT-Script-CS*.

      Choose folder with just exported from Word equations and click OK to start importing ones.

      And that's all.

      ....

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        Laubender
        Brainiac
        August 27, 2018

        Hi Boris,

        see into this script featured by Kasyan Servetsky:

        Place inline images

        That may help you.

        Regards,
        Uwe

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