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Some LaTeX geeks (like me) have always been frustrated at our inability to send complicated yet legible equations over e-mail. Most resort to sending raw LaTeX input, but that gets very old -- decyphering
\sum_{n=1}^{n}\pi\frac{e^{n}}{1-K}
(or whatever) on the fly is a pain. Imagine my delight when I discovered EquationService, a neat little service that transforms LaTeX code directly into a miniature PDF graphic embedded in your mail. And, hats off to the author, it's free!
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Embed latex equations in mail messages
Authored by: Han Solo on Sep 02, '03 02:40:43PM
If you already have TeX installed (I'd recommend Gerben Wierda's I-installer) and are using the latest version of TeXShop, you can accomplish the same thing by selecting the desired equations from the PDF preview window. Thus, you can place all the equations you wish to use in a regular TeX file for future reference -- an advantage over EquationService (which is still a fine program), IMO.

BTW, EquationEditor is a similar program to EquationService. Always nice to have a choice.

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Embed latex equations in mail messages
Authored by: googoo on Sep 02, '03 03:45:12PM

The real advantage of Equation Service is that you can embed equations as PDF objects in Keynote presentations (or any Cocoa app, for that matter). You can take advantage of transparency, and once you have your equation into PDF form, resizing it in Keynote is easily done graphically without it looking bit-mapped! (Try doing either of these in PowerPoint.)

Detailed instructions are available on the Equation Service Web site.

-Mark



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Equations in Power Point
Authored by: hamarkus on Sep 03, '03 04:41:57AM

The only way I know of to put resizable vector graphics (e.g. equations) into Powerpoint is to convert them into Windows Meta files (e.g. via Illustrator). Other formats (e.g. PDF) print out fine from Powerpoint but are displayed on screen as bitmaps, visible when one tries to resize them.
Conversion into .wmf does not always work perfectly but most issues can be fixed by fiddling with fonts etc.



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How to make equations painlessly
Authored by: wgscott on Sep 03, '03 11:00:28PM
I've been using Latex Equation Editor, which I think is rather similar, in conjunction with another little-publicized but highly useful program called TexFoG. TexFoG allows you to produce latex equation code without having to know Latex. Here is a brief description of the two programs working together. This is a lot faster and nicer than the equation editors that come with Word and Appalworks.

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Embed latex equations in mail messages
Authored by: billclinton on Sep 04, '03 07:40:00PM

I've installed all of the Ghostscript stuff along with Equation Service. However, the resulting equation graphics are _not_ scalable as they should be, but instead are scaled as bitmaps. Any ideas on what's going on?



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Embed latex equations in mail messages
Authored by: googoo on Sep 05, '03 09:01:42AM

Are you saving your output to a PDF file or exporting it to a TIFF file? PDF graphics are scalable in Mail.app, Keynote, TextEdit, etc.; but TIFF graphics are bitmapped.

BTW, apps that do not use native PDF graphics (like Word and PowerPoint) create bitmaps from imported PDF files.

-Mark



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