How To Find Your Mathtype For Mac

After struggling with MathType for many years, I have again dipped my InDesign toe into their waters. This add-on always seems promising, but the end results have always been less than professional. Even using the newest version, on a Mac, getting the equations into InDesign for a large scale book is nothing but problematic: 1.

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Anybody ever figured out why the figures won’t import at exactly 100%? Even using scripts to convert them all to 100% proves unsatisfactory as baseline shifts will then be off. No matter what I do with the settings, the files always remain 4-color. In a 2-color book, this will not rip correctly as the CMY plates contain info needed to make a solid black.

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Even when I convert these CMYK EPS files to grayscale, the newly saved EPS file is now a different size (?) than the original, thus it has to be manually shifted. When imported directly into ID, the files come in as a special EPS file (a special combo of EPS and WMF). These files are not your typical EPS file, thus saving as a standard AI EPS file affects the file.

Exporting all the figures via MathType won’t work as they would then all need to be manually imported back into the ID file — for a 400 page Math book, that won’t work. My newest nightmare is that when creating printer PDFs from files that contain MathType EPS files, the equations get outlined in the rip. When opened in AI, all the equations are outlined which tends to make them print darker. This outlining occurs using both OTF and Postscript fonts. Any MathType gurus out there? This all might be a Mac vs PC issue but I don’t know.

Maybe MathType just isn’t the way to go as I’m open to suggestions from people with positive experiences with other add-ons. With a 400 page math book just around the corner, I need to get this figured out quickly! Thanks for the help!!!