Why does "Insert MathType Equation" not work in new Pages for Mac?

Are you trying to insert it in a Table, Textbox or other object? Because it seems that inserting images has been removed and the MathType equations are actually .pdfs

Peter

Exactly same problem here. I hope there is a quick solution. I make a summary with many formulas. My exam is coming soon.

But it's an stange trouble part. Sometimes Pages crashes and can't stop (have to do an forced quit) in this situation.

Sometimes it works well ??? I didn't found why en when.

I had exactly this problem this morning. It seems that the "upgrade" of Pages '09 had left the old version in place. I deleted both, reinstalled Pages 5 from the App store, and it is working again.

Strange with me It's the opposite. I deleted iWork '09 and installed iWork 2013 and got trouble with Mathtype. Now I reinstalled iWork '09 and iWork 2013 worked OK. Did an test, and deleted iWork '09+2013 both, installed iWork 2013 again, but that doesn't work. Maybe I have to reinstall Mathtype ?

But I discover this ! First start-up MathType, then Pages -> it works OK

But do the other way: First Pages, then MathType, you get trouble !

I don't start Mathtype separately. I just use Insert, Mathtype Equation (I made a keyboard shortcut for it) and it fires up fine now.

Right -- you shouldn't have to start MathType separately. If it's running, fine, but if it's not, it will start when you first use the Insert MathType Equation command.

All the posts and replies have been helpful, but I'm still getting mixed results. The first document I opened in Pages 5.0 was one that I created in Pages 4.3, and it had several MathType equations in it. I could not edit the old equations, but I could insert new ones and edit them once they were inserted. I later rebooted and opened the same document (which was now saved in Pages 5.0 format), and I got a message saying some of the images had been deleted. All of the original equations had been replaced with empty placeholders (gray boxes with a large X), but the new ones were still there.

I haven't been able to duplicate that behavior with additional "old" documents. I can open Pages 4.3 documents in Pages 5.0, and all the old equations are visible and editable. Someone mentioned re-installing MathType, and I must say that I did that (for a different reason), so I must consider the possibility that this had some bearing on the outcome, but I can't be sure.

It does appear, as has been reported many times, and as Peter alluded to above, that you can't add equations or other objects to text boxes or tables. I believe this was intentional on Apple's part, but that doesn't mean it was a good idea.

That said, and this is a Pages thread so I won't say much about it, I haven't seen any problems at all with Keynote 6.0 and Numbers 3.0, when it comes to how they deal with MathType.

Mr.MathType wrote:

The first document I opened in Pages 5.0 was one that I created in Pages 4.3, and it had several MathType equations in it. I could not edit the old equations, but I could insert new ones and edit them once they were inserted.

I had exactly the opposite - exisiting equations were fine, I could open edit and save them. It was just new equations, whether in the existing document or a new one. Deleting both versions of Pages and reinstalling Pages 5 sorted it out.

It seems very weird that we all seem to be getting such huge variations on the behaviour.

ThomasGray wrote:

It seems very weird that we all seem to be getting such huge variations on the behaviour.

I agree. I'm wondering why that's the case, but it has to be due to the differences in software/hardware configuration, and the order in which software is installed. Want to know something else weird? Before I upgraded to Mavericks, I had moved Pages, Keynote, and Numbers out of their iWork '09 folder and into the main Applications folder. I deleted the iWork '09 folder. Not sure at what point it happened, but after upgrading to Mavericks and the 3 apps, all from the App Store, the 3 iWork '09 apps are once again in an iWork '09 folder. I'm assuming that's just a part of the upgrade of the 3 apps, but I don't know that to be the case.

I noticed this as well, but did find a work-around for future documents. In MathType, go to File>Preferences>Cut & Copy Preferences>Equation object (PICT).

To insert a MathType Equation into a table cell in Pages 5.0, instead of clicking "Insert MathType Equation," open up a MathType window, type in the formula and copy it. With the preferences set as above, you'll be able to paste it into a table cell.

As a high school math teacher, I need to be able to do this for worksheets that I make up. I need a "table object" in a document that's actually a table, not a Numbers spreadsheet. This workaround is fine for future documents but I'm really disappointed that if I open up a document in Pages 5.0 that was created in Pages '09, all the MathType equations that were in tables have been stripped.

Ever since Lion (maybe Snow Leopard, but it's been a few releases ago), the default graphic format in OS X has been PDF. Even the "PICT" in MathType is really a PDF (it's both actually -- both PICT and PDF). This still doesn't work for me though. No matter how I try to insert an equation into a table in Pages 5.0 -- Insert MathType Equation, copy & paste PICT, or copy & paste PDF -- all it does is beep at me.

It works for me if I paste into the table cell immediately after selecting the cell. If I click on the cell twice, which brings up the text cursor (flashing "|"), then I get the beep too.

That's genius. I wouldn't have thought to do that, but you're right -- it works. Thanks!

Haha, it took me about an hour, not even kidding, to figure out why it wouldn't work consistently! That thudding beep was driving me crazy! The genius of a rat in a maze...

Be warned though that if you export it as a .doc or .docx after, all the equations are blank images in those formats so you will only be able to work with them on pages.

That's not what happens for me. If I export a Pages 5.0 document to Word docx format, the equations are there, but they're low resolution images. You can't edit them, but they're there. Same as what Pages 4.3 did on an Export to Word.