User Guide

MathType User Manual
Working with Desktop Publishing Applications
QuarkXPress Frames
Unfortunately, in
QuarkXPress you must
create a picture frame
before you can use the
Insert Object command.
Also, you must resize
the frame manually.
Font Warning
Keep in mind that the
fonts used in creating
documents, equation
objects, and equation
EPS files must be
available on both
platforms, otherwise, the
equation will not print
correctly from the new
platform. GIF files are
bitmaps, which do not
rely on fonts, so this is
not an issue with them.
You can use MathType with desktop publishing applications like Adobe
PageMaker, FrameMaker or InDesign, or QuarkXPress to create professional
quality technical papers, manuals, periodicals, and books. You can insert
equations using OLE or import equations saved as EPS files. The latter, although
not quite as convenient, often gives better results.
Color and Professional Publishing
Professional publishers often work with precisely defined colors in their
documents, usually naming them based on a color standard like Pantone. If
you’re going to import MathType equations into such a document, simply define
MathType’s colors to match those of the document. This is easy to do using
MathType’s Edit Color Menu command on the Color submenu of the Format
menu. The names of colors are particularly important, since MathType adds
these names to the EPS files it creates. When you import the EPS file into the
document, PageMaker and QuarkXPress will match up like-named colors in the
equation with those of the document so they are considered to be the same color.
Working with non-Windows Computers
MathType is available for Windows and the Macintosh, and the two versions
are compatible. You can copy whole documents containing equations if the
application that you used to create them is available on both platforms. Even if
the original application isn’t available, you may be able to import the document
into another application. If copying the entire document isn’t possible, you can
save the equations as files using MathType’s Save As command and then copy
the files to the other platform. If you have MathType available on the other
platform, you can open the equation files there.
Transferring Equation Files to and from non-Windows Computers
The best formats to use when copying equation files to other platforms are
Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) as these
file formats are somewhat universal. If you decide to use EPS and want to
include a screen graphic, save the file with a TIFF graphic; the WMF graphic is
generally not transportable. EPS with no graphic will also work.
The GIF format will work on any computer system but, as it is a bitmap format,
it will not print well unless you save it at a high resolution.
Transferring Microsoft Office Documents to and from the Macintosh
If you have Windows and Macintosh versions of Microsoft Office products, you
can transfer documents containing equations between platforms. Equations
contained in these documents will be converted into the graphic format of the
current platform. For the best results, however, you will need to update the
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