Mathtype Equations give 'General Error'

Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

Chris,

          Thanks for the prompt reply to my Bug Report; sample document
"attached" as requested.

Regards,

                Alan.

Chris Cheney wrote:
> Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?
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> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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Thanks for the document. This appears to also happen in both official OOo 3.1 and dev300 m49 (OOo 3.2).

Chris

This bug has been reported to upstream.

I'm having the same problem, but I can see the objects created with MathType qith some bad symbols, but i can't edit them, because the program says "General error".
In some .doc files I can't even see the equations.

I am not a developer, just a maths teacher... but i want to contribute with this cause, we need create a way to editing objects created in MathType from OpenOffice... How could I help?

Regards

I still experience this error on Kubuntu 9.04+OOo 3.1.1 (as I had on all previous versions of OOo).

The quality of equation import did not change significantly since I started using OOo (2.* versions). Some equations are imported correctly (only very simple ones), some have wrong sizes (stretched horizontally, for example), some are shifted (no correct baseline alignment, this problem is almost universal) or surrounded by excess margins (this problem seems to be at least partially solved in v3.1.1), some cannot be opened because of the 'General error' mentioned above. In the same time all these equations are displayed and opened for editing correctly in MS Word+Equation/MathType. This allows one to conclude that the OLE objects are not damaged.

Averagely complicated formulas are imported from Equation/MathType to OOo incorrectly: they cannot be correctly read and cannot be edited. Typical problems include:

1. integral sign and its limits
2. sum (sigma) sign and its limits
3. miscellaneous subscripts, superscripts and sings above the variable letter (hats, dots, tildas and so on). Only subscripts and superscripts which contain only digits or Latin letters are imported (rather often) correctly. For example, I have never seen a correctly imported formula like {\tilde\pi}_1^+ (latex equivalent). This formula can be easily created in both MS Equation/MathType and in OOo Math. But it cannot be imported from MS Equation to OOo Math.
4. square and figure brackets including those ones used to type a system of equations

This behavior limits OpenOffice applicability to create scientific articles for those journals and conferences which require Microsoft Word format. One can argue that contemporary organizations (publishers, conference committees, etc.) should not insist on using proprietary formats, but many still do and this is our reality.

For the same reason it is also almost impossible to use OpenOffice to read scientific articles created earlier in Microsoft Word.

Is it possible to expect any fixes in the nearest time or any comment or recommendations?

What I did not try yet:
1. Matrices
2. Export from OOo Writer+Math to MS Word+Equation/Mathtype
I cat comment nothing on this functionality.

Its fixed in OOo 3.2 which may be in Ubuntu 10.04, so yes you still see this bug in Ubuntu Karmic...

Just installed dev 3.2 OOO320m4 (Build:9450). The issue is still present. Double Click on a mathtype object produces a "General Error"

Ups! Should add: I'm on Ubuntu 8.10

I'm using Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) 64bit, and I have installed - OOO320m7 (build - 9461), the bug is still exist.
The only solution I have found is to use Microsoft Office 2007 with wine...

The issue is still present in OOo 3.2 on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 with latest updates (OOO320m12, build:9483).

Same problem on maverick up to date with depository version of Ooo.

Alan Jordan, this issue is unreproducible in LibreOffice Writer via the Terminal:

cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/384489/+attachment/602160/+files/World%20War%20II%20Fighter%20Speed.doc && lowriter -nologo World\ War\ II\ Fighter\ Speed.doc

Notice no crash and the formulas display as expected. Does this work for you?

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04

apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty-proposed/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:3.3.2-1ubuntu4 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages

Hi,

I'm afraid I can't answer your question, because I gave up on Microsoft
Office and Mathtype under Linux a long time ago, and went through an
exercise of converting all my relevant documents with embedded Equations
to run with Open Office (now Libre Office), using Math.

I had almost forgotten about this bug. Sorry!

Alan.

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