LaTeX Eq Editor, Keynote '08, and missing eq's in PDF

I have used LaTeX Equation Editor 1.3 in conjunction with Keynote '06 (or whatever that earlier version was) for some time to great effect. It's awesome. But I need to produce PDF for my students, who largely use Windows.

Typically this works fine, but I recently found that 2 of my newly produced files in Keynote '08, with dropped-in PDF equations from LaTeX Equation Editor, lose much but not all of their equations when exported to PDF or printed as PDF. That is, I can see the math using Preview on Mac OS X, but my Acrobat 7.0 on Mac OS X can't see all of the equations, and neither can my Windows-using students. Again, not all of the math vanishes, just some --- leading me to believe there's some character set exporting/embedding issues.

A workaround I've found is to export as TIFFs then use Acrobat to combine them into a PDF file. At least, I think it works. Acrobat is happy, so I'm happy, for now.

Anybody else have this problem? Is there a button to hit in Keynote so that it exports/embeds the fonts right?

MacBook Pro first gen, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 2, 2007 4:18 AM

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Oct 2, 2007 4:35 AM in response to Ryan Edwards

I'm having the similar issue as well, but not with Keynote (I didn't try) -- it's with Pages. I created a document with some graphics, when exported to PDF, Acrobat doesn't display it well, though Preview did perfectly fine.

I noticed that when I open the erroneous document in Acrobat, it took some time and an error message will pop up telling me that some 'frame object' was missing. Wonder what does this mean?

Oct 3, 2007 10:16 AM in response to Ryan Edwards

Update:

I'm not really sure what originally caused this problem, but I discovered the same difficult with output from LaTeX Equation Editor v1.3 in Keynote '06 as well as Keynote '08.

So what I did was
1. Reinstall LaTeX Equation Editor v1.3.
2. Remove one of the PDF equations from the slides that didn't print well (the weird thing is that MANY equations in the slides didn't print well, and yet I had to replace only one)
3. Make a new PDF equation using LaTeX Equation Editor and insert it
4. Magically, the slides seem to export to PDF and are readable by Acrobat just fine.

My only advice for others with similar problems would be to try reinstalling the program that created the graphics you're trying to use in iWork.

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