Hi Niko,

A bit late, but thanks for the post. But we use the macversion of Mathtype. And that is really problem. Maybe it is better to make a pc only workflow for mathtype and forget about the mac platform. Mathtype for mac is a real problem. I am not so concerned about the the fact that exporting to pdf is the only way to get an output from indesign, but the disappearing of particular characters when placing the equations in indesign.

Because we use the mac as default and people can edit equations easily, i am thinking of this workflow.

1. Export the equations from Word 2007 (pc only) with mathtype plugin

2. Use the convert option of Mathmagic (mathtype–>mathmagic)

3. Automatic placement of mathmagic equations with the right baseline settings.

Maybe you have another idea?

Hi,

Go to this site: https://macproductionartist.wor…..press.com/

then click on the post: InDesign Paragraph Styles to XML tags for Groups

Have fun.

Johan van Ooijen

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.

Hi,

About fonts. You can delete the encryption xml file after exporting and than replace the encrypted fonts with the original ones. That is a way to bypass the encrytion error you get with validating. A way to do that is to use Oxygen XML. Works great.

As far as i know, Threepress Consulting is busy to update the validation check, so that it will not be an error in the future.