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EINSTEININHO
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April 29, 2019
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Issue importing MsWord equations in Indesign

  • April 29, 2019
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Hello,

I have to create a math Book in InDesign but i'm having issues importing equations to it.

First i have imported the .doc file into InDesgin and all the equations came in with an .eps format, wich is fine because i don't nececerly need to edit them into InDesign. But the thing is that they are not displayed correctly: some letters are over the other, some comas are not at the good place. i've uploaded two images, one is the equation on word and the other one inDesign with .eps format.

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Anyone know where this issue come from?

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    manal shanableh
    manal shanableh
    Legend
    April 29, 2019

    its about the font, I had this issue before, just try to find the suitable fonts that related to math glyphs.

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    EINSTEININHOAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 29, 2019

    Ok but the fonts that seem to be missing are :

    Arial Baltic (wich is supposed to be part of Arial Unicode MS that i have) and the font "Times", not times new romans , wich is unfindable on internet. Does anyone know where i could find those fonts?

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    EINSTEININHOAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 29, 2019

    Thanks for your answer,

    Times is actually available through Ms-Words and i managed to install it on InDesign.

    Though it didn't change anything, the equations are all messed up.

    I'd like reformulate my main issue: how can i import MsWord equations into inDesign without any need to edit them later?


    I think i've found a way to kind of "get around" my problem.

    Basically i copy/paste the word equation into illustrator. On illustrator the equation is displayed correctly.

    Then i save it as an eps. Then i import the eps into my InDesign and put it into the container of the previous equation.

    So it's not very convenient because i have more than a thousands equation to do like this but it seems the only way to do it properly.

    If anyone has an idea to accelerate this process, it's welcome

    Eric Dumas
    Community Expert
    Eric DumasCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    April 29, 2019

    Hi,

    There are several threads in the InDesign about issues with MathType plugin.

    It seems that the font is not recognised/mapped correctly.

    Check:

    Please include the version of InDesign, Word, MathType and operating System you are using. It might help getting you better support

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    EINSTEININHOAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 29, 2019

    Thanks for your answer.

    The thing is that the equations have not been written with MathType but with the Ms Word equation editor 3.0.

    I'm using CC 2018 , Ms office pro 2016 and the latest version of mathtype but as i said i dont use mathtype.

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    EINSTEININHOAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 29, 2019

    I tried to copy/past the equations into an Ai file and they were displayed correctly. So would it come from import parameters of InDesign?

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