Importing Math Equations from Word 2010

[Fred Ridder]

But note that MS Word only used an equation editor based on Mathtytpe through Word 2003. In Word 2007 MS introduced an all new, designed in house eqution tool that is has some resemblance to TeX in both syntax and capabilities. The new tool is used as the default, with the old editor included in the Word environment to allow recent versions of Word to open legacy documents. The documents Orly has that started life in Word 2003 would still contain equations made with the old Mathtype-based tool, while documents that originated in Word 2007 or 2010 would have equations in the new format.
 
In either case, if you have either the Standard or Professional version of Acrobat installed on your system, it is relatively easy to use Word's "print selection" capability and the Adobe PDF virtual printer to make a PDF of the just a selected equation, and PDF works beautifully as a FrameMaker graphics import format. I usually find it preferable to crop away the whitespace in Acrobat (although Adobe did a *really* good job of hiding this capability from the user in Acrobat X...) so that I can just import the PDF as-is into Frame.
 
-Fred Ridder
 



Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 07:12:20 -0400
From: kbenson at pegtype.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Importing Math Equations from Word 2010

In my experience using Mathtype to connect various versions of Word with various DTP apps (including Frame), the only reliable way to reproduce equations is to paste them into Illustrator, fix the problems, export each equation as EPS (or AI), and import each equation into the DTP app.

This is slow and painful, but OLE is worse.
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.com
On 6/20/2012 4:40 AM, Orly Zimmerman wrote: 






HI All, 
We have math equations that we get from the engineers in MS Word docsuments. 
We usually need to copy these equations into our unstructured FM files for the customer.
We’re currently on Win7 OS and FM10. 
-        When we copy equations from Word docs (that were created in Word 2003, then saved as Word 2010), into FM (Special Paste>Embedded Object), then all is fine and you can double click the equation, open it and continue to edit as a Word object if needed. I’m assuming these equations were written using Math Type or Equation Editor 3.0
-        However, when we import equations from Word files originally created in Word 2010 (it seems Word has its own equation editor), then when importing (Special Paste>Embeded Document Word Microsoft Object ) into FM, then we get loads of question marks and H’s as opposed to the equation. If we double click on the equation, it opens properly in Word 2010. Saving the page as PDF shows only the question marks. 
 
Using any of the other special paste options turns the equation into an image.
 
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the equation to show properly in FM? 


Thanks,
Orly.



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