Reply To: Any MathMagic Users?

Hi,

At our company https://www.progressomedia.nl/ we use Mathtype and Mathmagic. We have several workflows for different publishers. Mathmagic is an ideal plugin to make equations and/or convert equations from word documents.

There is one problem we have with mathmagic and i do not know if it is a problem of mathmagic or a mac osx server configuration that we have.

Let me explain.

For some time we have made equations as a link. That is normal thing, but we have seen that for some reason equations were not saved good enough on the server and as a result, they were deleted after a while. Really irritating. So therefore, we embed the equations now, and seems to work better. We do not lose them now. Just in case, we make a extra copy of the indesign document.

Beside that, Mathmagic is a really good workflow tool to make equations in seconds.

For Mathtype, we use scripts to place and positioning them in indesign. We get word documents with Mathtype equations (mostly 600 or more in a chapter). So automation is very important. There are some problems with making postscript from indesign documents containing Mathtype equations, so we export to pdf directly. Then we make a print. Another problem is the saving of several symbols. They do appear in Mathtype, but not in Indesign or so. The only solution is to export to pdf. If someone has a solution for it, please let me know.