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Word 2007 Symbol Pallette and Mathtype 6.0 symbols
My Problem:
I have Mathtype 6.0 and Office 2007 on both my home and work computers. At home, I insert a Mathtype symbol in a Word document, and that symbol -- which was not originally in the Word Symbol palette -- now shows up in the Word symbol palette for future use. When I print out the document at home, all this works well. On my work computer, this does not seem to work. I saved the file to my work computer, to print out here at work. All the original Mathtype symbols that were inserted at home using the symbol pallete, now have been replaced by incorrect symbols. Any suggestions? Thanks, Greg |
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Word 2007 Symbol Pallette and Mathtype 6.0 symbols
I'm not sure I understand exactly what's happening. I'll try to
re-state your problem; please let me know if I've misunderstood anything (BTW, thanks for identifying the versions of MathType and Word you're using; that's helpful): 1. You have MathType 6 and Office 2007 installed both at home and at the office. 2. At home you use MathType to insert a symbol (not really sure what you mean by "insert a MathType symbol"). 3. Now the symbol is in your Word 2007 document, but it's not a symbol of text. It's a MathType object (meaning that if you double-click it, MathType opens). 4. After you put the MathType symbol into your document, you can click the Symbol arrow on Word's Insert tab, and the symbol you just inserted with MathType will be there in the list of symbols. 5. If you try this at the office, the symbol inserts correctly with MathType, but appears incorrectly in the symbol listing, and on the printout. Even if I've misunderstood part or all of your problem, the problem almost certainly is caused by a font either missing or replaced on your office computer. Most often when this happens, it's MathType's "MT Extra" font that's the culprit. Both Word and MathType have versions of this font. It's possible to have more than one physically located in your fonts folder, but Windows will only recognize the most recent one installed -- not the largest, or the one with the latest creation date. There are sometimes updates to Office that cause this font to be replaced. Open your fonts folder, find MT Extra, select it and delete it. Close the fonts folder and re-open it (refreshing it won't do). If MT Extra still appears, delete it again. Continue this until there is no longer an MT Extra font in your fonts folder, then drag MT Extra from the MathType TrueType fonts folder (default location: C:\Program Files\MathType\Fonts\TrueType). The name of the font file is mtextra.ttf. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor On 21-Oct-2009, Greg wrote: I have Mathtype 6.0 and Office 2007 on both my home and work computers. At home, I insert a Mathtype symbol in a Word document, and that symbol -- which was not originally in the Word Symbol palette -- now shows up in the Word symbol palette for future use. When I print out the document at home, all this works well. On my work computer, this does not seem to work. I saved the file to my work computer, to print out here at work. All the original Mathtype symbols that were inserted at home using the symbol pallete, now have been replaced by incorrect symbols. |
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Word 2007 Symbol Pallette and Mathtype 6.0 symbols
Bob:
Thanks for your reply. I did what you suggested -- deleting the font file from Windows and pasting the one from mathtype back into Windows. One thing I noticed is that they were both the same date -- 8/12/2004, so I am assuming they were the same font file. In any case, the problem was not corrected. Some symbols are still being replaced by strange symbols. Greg "Bob Mathews" wrote: I'm not sure I understand exactly what's happening. I'll try to re-state your problem; please let me know if I've misunderstood anything (BTW, thanks for identifying the versions of MathType and Word you're using; that's helpful): 1. You have MathType 6 and Office 2007 installed both at home and at the office. 2. At home you use MathType to insert a symbol (not really sure what you mean by "insert a MathType symbol"). 3. Now the symbol is in your Word 2007 document, but it's not a symbol of text. It's a MathType object (meaning that if you double-click it, MathType opens). 4. After you put the MathType symbol into your document, you can click the Symbol arrow on Word's Insert tab, and the symbol you just inserted with MathType will be there in the list of symbols. 5. If you try this at the office, the symbol inserts correctly with MathType, but appears incorrectly in the symbol listing, and on the printout. Even if I've misunderstood part or all of your problem, the problem almost certainly is caused by a font either missing or replaced on your office computer. Most often when this happens, it's MathType's "MT Extra" font that's the culprit. Both Word and MathType have versions of this font. It's possible to have more than one physically located in your fonts folder, but Windows will only recognize the most recent one installed -- not the largest, or the one with the latest creation date. There are sometimes updates to Office that cause this font to be replaced. Open your fonts folder, find MT Extra, select it and delete it. Close the fonts folder and re-open it (refreshing it won't do). If MT Extra still appears, delete it again. Continue this until there is no longer an MT Extra font in your fonts folder, then drag MT Extra from the MathType TrueType fonts folder (default location: C:\Program Files\MathType\Fonts\TrueType). The name of the font file is mtextra.ttf. -- Bob Mathews Director of Training Design Science, Inc. bobm at dessci.com http://www.dessci.com/free.asp?free=news FREE fully-functional 30-day evaluation of MathType MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor On 21-Oct-2009, Greg wrote: I have Mathtype 6.0 and Office 2007 on both my home and work computers. At home, I insert a Mathtype symbol in a Word document, and that symbol -- which was not originally in the Word Symbol palette -- now shows up in the Word symbol palette for future use. When I print out the document at home, all this works well. On my work computer, this does not seem to work. I saved the file to my work computer, to print out here at work. All the original Mathtype symbols that were inserted at home using the symbol pallete, now have been replaced by incorrect symbols. . |
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