[OS X TeX] Equation Service

[Chip Brock]

Hey...cool your jets, man. I don't think that anywhere I suggested that
there was a problem with Equation Service. I'm not blaming anyone or
anything. Just made an observation about your cool utility, thinking that
maybe if I can do what I said within acrobat...it might be possible to
extend this to do something similar. Then it would make a necessary and
painful operation much, much more friendly.

Little touchy, aren't we?

Ray

On 3/21/02 2:45 PM, "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com> wrote:

> Chip Brock said:
>> This is cool...the way to make it way-cool would be if it could somehow
> -
>> drag and drop, great; copy and paste, good too - communicate with
>> powerpoint. One of the big problems in giving scientific talks using
>> powerpoint is equation presentation. Most of us treat this like with
> high
>> resolution postcript graphics/plots: make a pdf and use the Acrobat
> graphic
>> selection tool to copy and then paste into powerpoint. The pdf
> rendering is
>> preserved. If Equation Service could somehow be used that way, then one
> 
>> could eliminate many steps! Right now, I don't seem to be able to make
> it
>> work with powerpoint out of Office X...
> 
> You're blaming the wrong end of the software chain.
> 
> /rant begin
> 
> The problem isn't with this Service, nor Gerben Wierda's, but with
> Microsoft, the people who programmed PowerPoint and didn't trouble to
> make it comply with standard Mac OS X concepts like Services.
> 
> Moreover, if the problem were in Equation Service, the source is to be
> provided, so one could fix it oneself (or hire someone to fix it). Why
> don't you ask Microsoft for the source to PowerPoint so you can fix it?
> 
> /rant end
> 
> The equivalent Service (TeX eq -> eps) in NeXTstep, provided by NeXT's
> TeXView.app works with almost every application on my system (hold-outs
> include Adobe Illustrator and Stone Design's Create).
> 
> There's probably never going to be a system as elegant, consistent and
> full-featured ever again which is reprehensible.
> 
> William
> 
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