Coreldraw 10 doesn't understand MathType object!
Shutian Liu
Hi There
I have asked such question months ago but it seemed no body can solve this
question.
I need to create graphics with mathematics in it. However, when I insert
Mathematics using MathType 5.0 thru "insert new object" in edit menu,
Coreldraw 10 can not display most of mathematical symbols. Previous versions
of Coreldraw, say CD8, has not such problem.
I also find that other advanced graphic tools such as Adobe Illustrator 10
and Freehand 10 have this problem too. They seem have no MathType
interpretor to display.
Anybody has an idea about this problem?
Thanks.
ps. I use Windows 2k Pro. Chinese version.
Vtyurin
Shutian Liu wrote:
Just a thought.
I'd try to do it as follows.
1. Create equation in MathType.
2. Copy it.
3. Open/switch to Corel.
4. Paste Special - as WMF (Windows metafile) object.
5. Ungroup and add some minor corrections - palette first of all.
It would not hurt to try.
Regards - Aleks Vtyurin
Shutian Liu
Hi Alex
My Corel has no "paste as WMF" option in Paste Special menu
Why?
It seems that Corel can't use some fonts in an external object.
Thanks.
Best regards
Shutian Liu
"Vtyurin" <vty...@iph.krasn.ru> ??????:3D32252D...@iph.krasn.ru...
Vtyurin
Shutian Liu wrote:
> Hi Alex
>
> My Corel has no "paste as WMF" option in Paste Special menu
> Why?
> It seems that Corel can't use some fonts in an external object.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards
>
> Shutian Liu
>
>
Sorry, I have no Corel 10 now at hand; in CD8 it is Paste Special >
Picture (Metafile). The object (equation in your case) should be copied
before to make this menu item active. I can go and see how it is in CD10
later on.
If you are interested, I can as well send you (by E-mail) an old little
utility, CatchWMF. It makes WMF file of anything placed into Copy
buffer of Windows. You can make such file being in MathType, and import
it into Corel. Very old thing (it understands only old 8.3 file names)
but still it works for me, at least with W'98, NT4, W2K. In a case - let
me know your address (it's less than 100 K).
Aleks Vtyurin
Loren G. Dobert
address is:
greenbush@mindspringdotcom (replace (dot) with (.) , spam protection :-)
Thanks, and in reply to the original question, some programs do not make
their clipboard copies in a manner that is usable by other programs. You'd
think this would be a standard Windows action, but apparently not. The worst
offender I've come across is surprisingly, a Microsoft program called
Picture It. When you copy to the clipboard with it, there is nothing to
paste in Draw or any other program. Leave it to Microsoft to not follow
their own rules. :-)
The other option for this type of problem is to print the file to a
postscript printer file. Install a postscript printer and set it's output to
"file" instead to the LPT port. This will create a PRN file than can
(usually) be interpreted by Draw. Again, the originationg program decides
how to print to the postscript file and again, Microsoft programs are the
worst offenders here, printing using bitmaps instead of vectors. I just hate
it when someone sends us a file created in one of these cheap Microsoft
programs. They are almost impossible to get usable files out of.
L.D.
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Shutian Liu
Hi Alex
Thank you very much. My e-mail address:
st...@hope.hit.edu.cn
I want to try your tools to catch WMF, but I am not sure it works.
As for CD8, it work with MathType perfectly well. Only the problem is in
CD10.
Thanks again for your help.
Best regards.
Shutian Liu
"Vtyurin" <vty...@iph.krasn.ru> ??????:3D32810D...@iph.krasn.ru...
Bill Landenberger
I can duplicate the problem Shutian. Corel9 does the same - I don't have 8
to test. Paste special and choosing metafile (which pastes wmf) doesn't
work either. The problem is that Draw converts all the fonts to Times New
Roman, and so all the characters from the symbol fonts get screwed.
But I have found a couple of workarounds. If you're using Mathtype 5, then
save your equation as EPS (encapsulated postscript - choose the EPS/none or
EPS/wmf format when saving, not the EPS/TIFF). Then in Coreldraw import the
file as a "postscript interpreted" file (listed under ps,prn,eps in the
import file type list). Once you select your file to import, you will get a
dilaog box with the option to import text as "text" or "curves" - choose
curves, otherwise the same problem arises. This does mean however that you
can't re-edit the imported equation as it is no longer text.
However, even that doesn't work for greek characters - and italicised fonts
come across as "normal" (i.e. not italicised). After some fiddling, I found
the best option is the following:
In Mathtype 5, print the equation to a postscript printer (I used the
HP4000n PS driver, but it shouldn't matter which printer it is - as long as
it's postscript). Make sure you tick the box that says "print to file".
You will be prompted for a filename - call it whatever you want, but use a
".prn" extension (you don't get a path option - it will save it to the root
of your "my files" folder).
Then use the same proceedure as above, importing it as a "postscript
interpreted" file, and choosing import text as curves. I get a perfect
rendition of equations here using this method.
Funny thing is I can't remember this happening with Mathtype 4 and coreldraw
9 - so maybe it's a mathtype 5 bug - I'm off to their website to check for
patches.
cheers
Bill
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Shutian Liu
Thank you very much, Bill. I will try your method.
CorelDraw 8.0 absoltely work well with MathType X.0 but CD10. Other graphic
tools like Illustrator 10 and Freehand 10 also have the same problem.
It is not the problem of different versons of Windows. Maybe it is the
mistakes that Microsoft has.:-)
Anyway thanks lot for your kind help.
Best regards
Shutian Liu
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Sepp Bradl
It didn't work for me :-(
Any other suggestions?