[Framers] Is this your final answer to equations?

[Peter Gold]

I remember when a techwhirler at Sun Computer posted on one of these
listservs long ago, the discovery that the common "Lorem ipsum" placeholder
text wasn't random gobbledegook, but in fact, it seemed to prove that
ancient scribes had composed it, since it seemed to translate to something
like, "We love to write and beat ourselves with sticks."

We all have our memories of chasing seemingly-trivial rabbits through
looking-glasses into wonderlands of absolutely wrong stuff, until finally
coaxing out a true magic obvious tidbit. Is beating oneself with a stick to
celebrate closure, appropriately ironic?

On Mon, Aug 9, 2021 at 12:48 PM <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

> Hi Lin, LOL . . . yep, you got that right. But, it works and at this
> point, I will take what I can get. Thank you so much again. I really can't
> express how much all the replies helped. At least it confirmed that I
> wasn't completely off my rocker about this issue. Tammy Van Boening Tammy
> dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com
> -----Original Message----- From: Framers On Behalf Of Lin Sims Sent:
> Monday, August 9, 2021 11:35 AM To: An email list for people using Adobe
> FrameMaker software. Subject: Re: [Framers] Is this your final answer to
> equations? Sorry for the no doubt massive tedium you're experiencing now.
> 🙁 I had a thought that maybe converting the Word file to XML (via the ZIP
> option) and opening the XML in Structured Frame might work, but it doesn't.
> The XML file needs some sort of schema or something like that and, of
> course, it doesn't have one. Poop. So much for that idea. On Mon, Aug 9,
> 2021 at 12:41 PM wrote: > So, > > > > Remember that game show "The weakest
> link?" Well, that's what keeps > going through my head as I ask myself "Is
> this your final answer?" > > > > First, I truly and sincerely appreciate
> everyone's input and advice to > this issue. It helped to me to feel not so
> alone in my quest. Second, > I will summarize at a very high level the
> results of investigating all > that I investigated and what I ultimately
> had to do. > > > > 1. For Export to PDF - There are no special settings
> that I could find > anywhere that would help me get the equations
> recognized as images > when exporting to PDF. The equations remained
> recognized as text. > 2. For Export to PDF/XPS - There was a single setting
> that I could try > (Optimize for Image Quality), but again, the equations
> were not being > recognized as images. Only text. > 3. For Save As HTM/HTML
> - I tried Lin's recommendations (Save > > Advanced, and Web Options) at a
> size of Cambria Math 14 point, many > subscripts, especially those with a
> descender such as a "j" were still > being cut off. A "j" actually looked
> like an "i," for example. > 4. For Save as HTM/HTML - I incorporated Lin's
> recommendations along > with Sue's to increase the font size (this was also
> found as a > work-around when googling this issue until my fingers bled)
> and voila, > it helped with the cutting off of the descenders in a
> subscript, but > introduced another issue. Although in the Word document an
> equation > remained on a single line at the increased font size, when
> extracted > as PNGs, these equations were now turned into multi-line
> equations at > arbitrary points so the equation was not pleasing or easy to
> read or > consistent in layout. Operators were left randomly on their own
> lines, > some lines had only two equation variables, others had three, etc.
> > > > > I have just punted at this point. I have worked off-book way too
> many > hours to try and resolve this issue further. I am going w/ the PDF >
> solution of saving the Word file to a PDF, and then cropping each >
> equation to the size that I need and importing the PDF into the FM >
> document. As vector images, scaling the PDF to view is not an issue > and I
> can now at least save the equations to a single folder with each > equation
> image having a unique name and I can import each equation > into the
> multiple documents as I need. If I need to make a change to > an equation,
> I can make a change in the original Word doc., save as a > PDF with the
> appropriate name and voila, all the documents that have > this equation
> imported will be updated en masse and the information > won't get out of
> sync across multiple documents. The only thing that > I will simplify going
> forward is to have each equation in its on Word > file so that I can deal
> w/ one PDF at a time and not have to take an > extra step to crop each
> equation individually out of the PDF file. > > > > Again, I sincerely and
> truly appreciate all the effort, thoughts, and > advice that was supplied.
> This list just rocks w/ incredibly talented > and knowledgeable folks that
> always go the extra mile. I hope to be > able to pay it forward someday. >
> > > > Happy Monday > > > > TVB > > > > > > Tammy Van Boening > > Tammy dot
> vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > > www.spectrumwritingllc.com >
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