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• • November 22, 2016 at 9:35 am #90009
    Bala S

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    While placing the MathType eps in InDesign, we are getting unwanted white space around the equations which leads additional spacing issue for Inline equations. Can anybody suggest that how to get the MathType eqns without white space? or is there any other solution?

    Note: At present, I am reducing 2 points (left and right side) of parent text frame to avoid the white space

  • November 22, 2016 at 3:30 pm #90024
    Dwayne Harris

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    I can’t think of anything off hand. Perhaps there’s a setting in MathType that controls how much background space there is.

  • November 22, 2016 at 11:16 pm #90025
    Bala S

    Participant

    Hi Dwayne Harris,

    Thanks for your reply. However, I can’t find out where to control space in MathType setting. Could you please help me to find out?

  • November 23, 2016 at 2:06 am #90026
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Bala — The only way to remove that space is to crop manually all the EPSs in InDesign. MathType rounds the EPSs bounding box up to whole points and adds (at least) 1 to make sure that no part of an equation is clipped. There is no way (in MathType or in InDesign) to crop the frames automatically.

    Peter

  • November 23, 2016 at 6:20 am #90028
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I think you could probably apply an object style to the frame, and use the Frame Fitting Options to force it to crop the edges by 1 or 2 points. For example, set up an object style like this (see below) and then when you apply it, it will resize the graphics in the frame:
    

    • November 23, 2016 at 10:18 am #90040
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      WAIT! It was too early in the morning when I made that… do not use “Fit Content to Frame” because that may scale the image disproportionally. Instead, use “Fit Content Proportionally” in the Fitting pop-up menu.

  • November 23, 2016 at 6:37 am #90030
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    Where is the thumbs-up button?!

    • November 23, 2016 at 6:46 am #90031
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      LOL! Yes, we need thumbs up/down buttons here, don’t we? I’ll add that to our list of improvements we’d like to make to the forums.
      I’d give your knowledge of MathType a +1, too. Thank you, Peter.

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