User Guide

Chapter 4: Tutorials

3. Enter a location in the Folder field. You can either type the name of a folder

or click the Browse button and select a folder. If you enter the name of a folder

that doesn’t exist you will be asked if you want to create it. Check the “Delete all

files of same type in folder” checkbox if you want all files with the same

extension deleted from this folder before exporting. Be careful if you select this

option; if you export as GIF files to the folder C:\My Documents then every .gif

file in this folder will be deleted. It’s usually safest to create a new folder for each

set of exported equation files.

GIF Settings

You can set the

resolution, background

color and other

attributes of GIF files in

MathType’s Web and

GIF Preferences dialog.

4. Select the format of the exported equation files. You can also set the filename

pattern and the starting number. The above example will create the files

Eqn001.eps, Eqn002.eps etc. Setting the pattern to “PhysIntro####” and the first

number to 50 will create the files PhysIntro0050, PhysIntro0051 etc. You may

want to experiment with different patterns and numbers.

5. Check the “Replace equation with file name” checkbox if you want to

replace each exported equation with the corresponding file name. For example,

the above settings would insert the text <<Eqn001.eps>> in place of the first

exported equation. Clear this checkbox if you want to leave the equations in the

document unmodified.

6. Choose the “Whole document” option if you want to export all equations in

the document. The “Current selection” option is enabled only when you select a

portion of the document before running the Export Equations command.

7. Click OK to start the exporting process. When the process has finished a

dialog appears indicating how many equations were exported.