[comp.sys.mac] Quark Xpress and Word 4.0 Math

legg@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Christian Legg) (03/06/90)

  When Quark Xpress reads a Word 4.0 document it cannot handle any
Word 4.0 mathematical formula commands and reads them in as the text
that they are comprised of. Is there any easy way to take formulae
produced in Word 4.0 and import them into Quark Xpress? I have
thought that it would be possible to take a snapshot of the formula
using Capture (or another pixel saving utility), but this would give
too low a resolution for our purposes. The only other option that I
can think of is to print the formulae from Word 4.0 and then scan
the printout at 300dpi into a PICT which can then be placed in the
Quark Xpress document.

  Does anyone out there have any other ideas for how this could be
done?

  thanks

     Christian Legg

morris@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (03/07/90)

The easiest way to do this is to use something like Expressionist, Mathtype, 
or other similar programs which allow formulas to be constructed with
point and click ease and then exported in PICT format. You will revel in
glee in the ease that these programs create formulas, after you have hacked
at Microsoft Word.