Can't see formulas

Bon and Steve, thanks for the help so far. I saved it as a Mac file, and it opens without going through the metafile conversion process, still black boxes for formulas.

Steve, it's a .PPT file.

I also tried Open Office, no luck.

As far as contacting the publisher, good luck. Textbook companies are notoriously impossible to get in touch with regarding tech support. Honestly, one gets the impression that all the associated tech stuff is just sugar coating to justify outrageous prices.

Bruce

Hey there cucumber...

I was doing just fine until Steve woke me up from a fine winter's nap.
(Well, OK, fall.)

So he offered some pretty good advice, and pegged the cause of the
issue. Unfortunately there's no easy, "one-step" way to convert all
the equations from Windows format to Macintosh format. At the moment,
the only way to do it is what you're doing -- double-click to open in
MathType. When you save it, it'll be in Macintosh PICT format.

One question -- this file from the textbook company... Does the file
name end in PPT or is it PPTX? (PPTM is another choice, but I'm
certain it's not that.)

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On 24-Nov-2008, cucumber.RemoveThis@officeformac.com wrote:

> Hi. Im using version 11.5 of Powerpoint.
> I am looking at a pp for a math class, released from the company
> that made the textbook.
>
> When I open the pp, a window opens that says "converting metafile".
>
> When the pp opens the formulas either don't show up, or are covered
> by black boxes. I can double click on them and open them in
> MathType.
>
> This is the same weather or not I let the "convert metafile" happen.

In article <59b63cd3.2.TakeThisOut@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>, Cucumber.TakeThisOut@officeformac.com wrote:
> Bon and Steve, thanks for the help so far. I saved it as a Mac file, and it opens without
going through the metafile conversion process, still black boxes for formulas.
>
> Steve, it's a .PPT file.
>
> I also tried Open Office, no luck.
>
> As far as contacting the publisher, good luck. Textbook companies are notoriously
impossible to get in touch with regarding tech support. Honestly, one gets the impression
that all the associated tech stuff is just sugar coating to justify outrageous prices.

Can you open the PPT on a Windows version? If so try ungrouping then regrouping the
Mathtype objects.

They'll no longer be equations, just vector graphics that happen to *look* like equations
but they should be visible in PPT/Mac.