Individual equations can be saved as pictures, including formats like PDF and SVG, but sadly these, too, only include raster images. I installed MathType Office365 plug-in on macOS Word and can say that it is not a solution: while it allows adding and editing equations using a similar editor as before, and does that job competently, the equations export as raster images, no matter whether transferred via Clipboard, within Word documents or exported as PDF. Nowadays Adobe has with FM and ID two strong pro players in this publishing field, with which everything else must be measured. Of course they benefitted from it, though the support of other system platforms, div Unix'es and OSX, had been dropped then over time. In case of FM, Adobe on the one side rescued the survival of the product and pushed it again towards pro markets. Later after my NX times I contacted an Adobe rep I had good contact to, who managed to send me a NX to Win system update kit for it (.as far as I recall, I got a bunch of FM 7 Win floppy disks as an upgrade package).Īfter Adobe acquired FM of course also a lot of former times Frame Technologies algorithmic programming code know how also flow into Adobe's own InDesign product those days, similar as before with a bunch Altsys/Macromedia Freehand know how which flow into Illustrator, etc. AFAI recall it's price in the past was somewhere in between ~$2500-$3000 for NeXTstep, which was a bunch/lot of money those times for a software. I've used FM since the past NeXT times, initially got it as a part payment for a customer programming job since I also had an urgent private usage need for the FM software. They did not just take it over, but have continued to develop it strongly. I hope other users post some information on useful and actually tested workflows involving other apps and tools (on either platform). We have long experience on using (LaTeX to ) Word to InDesign print publishing workflows and that works reasonably well though may require some additional manual work. On macOS there are probably SVG and PDF or raster based equation utilities that can produce something usable for Publisher on macOS, but if you need a workflow based on Word and Word created equations, I suppose you need to make a visit to Windows.Īs a general note I think that dedicated utilities using something like LaTeX have smoother publishing workflows on Windows than on macOS, but more robust and versatile publishing routines might require something like Adobe FrameMaker (only available on Windows). I have no experience of this workflow on macOS but can say that legacy version of MathType on Windows that only supports EPS and WMF vector exports does not work with Affinity apps (though still does work more or less flawlessly with Adobe apps) because Affinity apps cannot read properly either format. More practical solutions might involve getting a tool like MathType (nowadays only via subscription) and convert the Word equations en masse to PDF format and then import them into macOS Publisher. If you have universal license and access to a Windows machine, you could open your Word document with equations on Windows and then copy Word equations and paste them as "Enhanced Windows Metafile" to get something workable (one would typically need to make adjustments like shown below, and also convert RGB black to K100), as shown on the clip below:īut you cannot import a Word document with equations (like you could when you use InDesign, at least to get placeholder equations to be replaced with file-based equivalents). On macOS the situation is particularly austere. I have made a few posts earlier dealing with equations (related to Word, but also generally) and Affinity apps, and unfortunately cannot say that there has been any development.
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