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MathMagic is an equation editor with a very easy user interface including WYSIWYG editing capability, powerful & customizable features, and publishing quality equations and productivity.
MathMagic is available in a few different versions:
- MathMagic Personal Edition, Mac OS X & Win
- MathMagic Pro Edition for Adobe InDesign, Mac OS X & Win
- MathMagic Pro Edition for QuarkXPress, Mac OS X & Win
- MathMagic XTension for QuarkXPress 3.3~4.1, Mac OS Classic only.
- MathMagic Prime Edition for InDesign or QuarkXPress, Mac OS X only
MathMagic is an Award-winning equation editor with powerful features and yet easy-to-use interface. MathMagic lets you write beautiful equations and symbols very easy and fast whether you are good at Math or not. Its equation quality is designed to meet the high-end DTP professionals' requirements.
MathMagic is designed to use with any word processors, DTP layout software, presentation, or graphic software. Equations can be used by drag&drop, copy&paste, or export/import. MathMagic Pro Editions come with accompanying plug-ins or XTensions to let you write or edit equations right inside the InDesign or QuarkXPress documents without going through export/import.
The superior quality and productivity of MathMagic has been accepted by many professors, teachers, students, University press, large publishers, online contents providers, and government research centers in more than 75 countries around the world since its debut in 1998.
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[Math+Magic] is the logo and the trademark of MathMagic products.
Normally we pronounce and write it as MathMagic for general text compatibility. It also simply and clearly represents the features and characteristics of the MathMagic equation editor.
We have an EPS format of this logo available for design and publishing purposes along with its usage guidelines. If you would like to use it on your website or printed materials, please visit the download page of marketing materials or contact the MathMagic marketing team.
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Can MathMagic solve the equations you build?
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No. MathMagic is designed for equation typesetting for technical documents, not for solving equations. MathMagic does not discriminate whether an equation uses meaningful or correct notation. MathMagic allows you to enter any equations that you can build with the editing tools. So it does not require you to have Mathematical knowledge or background.
The superior equation quality and the fast and easy user interface that is simple to learn for both novice and experience user make MathMagic unique.
Actually many of our users don't even like math, but they can still create great looking equations faster than mathematicians. All thanks to MathMagic!
If you are looking for equation solving software, by the way, there are several products available: MathCAD™, MATLAB™, Maple™, Mathematica™, LabVIEW™, and so on.
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What is the difference between MathMagic XTension, MathMagic Pro Edition and MathMagic Personal Edition?
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MathMagic Pro Edition and MathMagic Personal Edition are standalone applications. They have very similiar interfaces and features. Pro edition adds some high-end features, like Color EPS export for professional users, and it also comes with a special plug-in or XTension that enables the seamless interaction with Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress depending on which one you buy. Pro edition lets users create and edit equations right from within your InDesign or QuarkXPress documents without going through an EPS export/import routine, by double-clicking or control-clicking on an equation.
Pro Edition can be used with many other word processors or graphic software including Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
MathMagic Personal Edition(PE) is a standalone application for general users including students, teachers, as well as pro users. MathMagic PE is available for Macintosh Classic, Mac OS X, Windows, and Java.
These application versions have fewer features than the Pro Editions but they provide most of the unique MathMagic features. Because of Personal Edition's flexibility, MathMagic PE has a much better feature set and user interface than MathMagic XTension.
MathMaigc PE is designed to be used with other word processors(AppleWorks, Pages, MS Word, Nisus, Mellel, ...), presentation software(Keynote, PowerPoint, ...), or graphic software(Illustrator, Photoshop, ...). It functions as a supplement, where you create equations simply and quickly, and then insert those equations into the documents of a wide range of applications.
MathMagic XTension is a kind of plug-in software for QuarkXPress® v3.3~4.x for Mac. It works within the QuarkXPress application to offer QuarkXPress equation editing capability. It is tightly integrated with QuarkXPress and supports many high-end features for both designers and publishers. So this is a professional edition specially designed for QuarkXPress v3~4 users only.
It also comes with a free viewer software, MathMagic Viewer XTension, to let others view and print the QuarkXPress documents that contain equations created with MathMagic XTension.
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Why is MathMagic Pro Edition so much more expensive than Personal Edition although they have similiar interface and features?
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MathMagic Pro Editons come with more: InDesign plug-ins or QuarkXPress XTensions which handle equations more efficiently within InDesign or QuarkXPress, and more fonts including Postscript fonts.
It also comes with other advanced features, like color EPS handling, more control overs spacing and equation shape, more Nudge adjustment, and more.
And, the Pro Editions and XTensions are more vertical market products than Personal Edition.
Pro Editions and XTensions are for those Pro-sumers who make money using MathMagic and it helps them get high quality results efficiently. MathMagic Pro brings a ROI(return-on-investment) within 1 week by enabling you the ability to deal with quality equations in one tenth of the time of the more conventional methods.
Pro Editions and XTensions targets some portion (less than 10%) of InDesign users or QuarkXPress users compared to Personal Edition’s general users and education market.
We provide free unlimited email based customer support. And free inbound phone calls as well at the moment. Pro edition users require more support, affecting the price as well.
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What is the difference between MathMagic and MathType™
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There are many differences as well as similarities between these two. MathMagic was originally designed for the high-end desktop publishing market to meet their high quality printing and accurate adjustment needs. So it was first launched as a XTension for QuarkXPress® 3.3 on Macintosh.
And then standalone application versions of MathMagic, Personal Edition and Pro Editions, were released simultaneously for Macintosh, Mac OS X, Windows, and Java platform to meet other customers' needs.
So, MathMagic is designed and optimized for the quality of work required by professional publishing, and adding features such as being able to re-edit equations, and apply fine adjustments.
MathMagic, however, adopts a similiar user interface to MathType™ so that any previous MathType™ or Equation Editor™ users can easily switch to MathMagic without any additional learning cost.
MathType is also another good equation editor for general use. But it is not optimized for the high-end publishing as is MathMagic. For example, with MathMagic, you don't need any annoying external processes to build mathematical equations in your QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign documents. Equations created with MathType can be converted into EPS format to be imported into a graphic box of QuarkXPress or InDesign. But the imported equations require you to switch back to MathType for modification everytime. With MathMagic, your can modify equations right within QuarkXPress or InDesign just like standard text, which should improve your productivity very much if you are a heavy equation user. MathMagic automatically aligns its equations to the baseline of the current text line in QuarkXPress and InDesign, which saves you a lot of time in editing long technical documents.
MathMagic also allows you to specify your own fonts, style, and size within the equation, just like a word processor. It comes with a very intuitive interface.
So many users found MathMagic much more useful and now they have swtiched from MathType™ or Equation Editor™.
Please refer to the comparision chart for the details.
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Can I import MathType™ files into MathMagic?
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Yes.
MathMagic Personal Edition and Pro Edition v2.0 or newer for Windows support importing MathType™ documents saved in EPS or WMF format although there are some limitation in reading some certain templates or symbols due to feature differences.
We are planning to support the copy&paste of equation objects into the MathMagic window directly from MS Word™ documents or the MathType™ window (and to provide better compatibility) later.
v5.8 or newer version of MathMagic Personal & Pro Editions for Macintosh supports reading MathType 6 equations saved in PICT, GIF, and EPS.
And Copy & Paste is also supported. In MathType v5.x, MathML or AMS LaTeX should be specified from Preferences -> Translators menu.
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What
is MathMagic PostScript Fonts for?
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MathMagic Type 1 PostScript fonts are based on the PostScript technology, which was designed to get outputs of high resolutions with laser printers and other typesetters. You can use these fonts to download to the printer or RIP to print more clearly and faster. These PostScript fonts are mainly for DTP users who use MathMagic XTension with QuarkXPress, or for those who use the EPS format with other graphic software.
If you are a MathMagic Personal Edition user, you may not need MathMagic PS fonts because it comes with all necessary TrueType fonts.
MathMagic PS Fonts Installer is separately available for downloading if you are a MathMagic customer. Please visit the Download page.
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What does the Baseline-Savvy Equation mean?
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Baseline-Savvy Equation indicates mathematical equations that can be combined and matched with a text line that has the baseline information, just like a character in your documents. Baseline-Savvy Equation has its own baseline information in the equation image object, so it is automatically aligned to the baseline of the accompanying text line when inserted as an inline graphic. And you can easily change its default baseline to make it automatically fit perfectly with your text without adjustment.
AppleWorks and some other word processors support this feature for the equations created with MathMagic.
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Does
MathMagic support MathML or XML?
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MathMagic v5.7 or newer(Mac) supports MathML. MathML files can be drag&dropped onto MathMagic application icon, or opened via File -> Open menu. MathML expressions can be pasted directly into MathMagic window as well.
MathML 2.0 with namespace attr, no namespace, and m: namespace are supported.
Presentation markup and Mixed(with Contents) markup are supported.
MathMagic Windows version will also support MathML in v4.0, hopefully within 2008.
If you are keen to the details and evaluation, please contact MathMagic team for more information.
On the other hand, one of our partners has been using the XML/MathML workflow solution for Adobe InDesign with XML database on a server since 2004. If you need further information please contact us.
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Does
it support all the verions of TeX?
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MathMagic v5.8 or newer for Mac supports Plain TeX, LaTeX, and AMS-LaTeX for mathematical equations and symbols.
MathMagic v3.6x Windows version supports Plain TeX only. MathMagic v4.0 will support LaTeX and AMS-LaTeX as well.
MathMagic doesn't support all the features of TeX. It does not support features related to page layout or macros.
Please refer to the User Guide, the section describing TeX that MathMagic supports for the detail TeX compatibility codes.
MathMagic v5.6 or later(Mac) and MathMagic v3.7 or later(Win) even allow user to type in TeX expressions directly in the editor, converting it into equation.
MediaWIKI(TeXvc) will also be supported in the near future.
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Which
versions of QuarkXPress do you support?
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MathMagic XTension v2.x works with QuarkXPress 3.3 natively. And it also works with QuarkXPress 4.x.
MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress supports QuarkXPress 5.0 on Mac OS Classic and QuarkXPress 6.x ~ 8.x on Mac OS X at the moment.
On Windows, MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress 6.x ~ 8.x are available.
MathMagic XTension English version and MathMagic Pro English version support QuarkXPress & QuarkXPress Passport. MathMagic XTension Japanese & Korean versions support QuarkXPress East Asian versions.
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Can
I use MathMagic on Windows?
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All major MathMagic products are available on Windows as well.
MathMagic Personal Edition, MathMagic Pro Edition for InDesign CS~CS3, MathMagic Pro Edition for QuarkXPress 6.x~8.x are available for Windows.
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Do you support Adobe InDesign® and InCopy® ?
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MathMagic Pro Edition of the current product line is for Adobe InDesign v2.x ~ CS3. It comes with a MathMagic Plug-ins for InDesign 2.x and InDesign CS ~ CS3. For the details on MathMagic Pro Edition, please refer to the PDF flyer.
MathMagic Pro Edition for Adobe InDesign v2.x ~ CS3 is available on both Mac OS X and Windows.
We are sorry but we do not have a plan for InCopy plugin at the moment.
Due to the relatively limited market size of InCopy and the engineering cost of supporting equation objects in the text base of InCopy story, it has been postponed for a while unfortunately. We are sorry about this situation.
But if there is a committed client or some level of market, we may work on this.
Please contact us for the details if you are interested.
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How
can I use the equations with other applications?
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With MathMagic, you can save or export your work as TeX, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PICT or WMF format(format list may vary depending on the MathMagic version.) Any application that supports one of these formats can read your work.
You may simply drag&drop equations from MathMagic editor window to other application's window, or copy and paste the equation, without going thru the export&export process, because many of modern applications support drag&drop.
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Can
I adjust the relative location or gap of
each component in the equation?
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MathMagic has many options that allow users to specify thier own preferences for many shapes of equations including the locations, gaps, thickness, fonts, size, style, relative locations with a precision good to 2300dpi and beyond.
You can also save these settings in a database or StyleSet preference file and use it later with simple switch.
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Can I use MathMagic in higher education to build very complex equations?
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There is no limit to the equations that MathMagic can compose. It can be used equally well with simple equations used in elementary school, and with the most complex equations in the highest levels of academia and industry. It does not discriminate based on correctness of mathematical notation, so you can create your own new math formulation as well. There is no limit to the depth of nested equations, so feel free to build as long or as complex a equation as you can.
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Does MathMagic support automatic numbering and automatic baseline features for inserted equations in MS Word?
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MathMagic does not support automatic numbering of inserted equations in MS Word. But you may put numbers manually by using the "Insert -> Caption..." menu of MS Word.
MathMagic Mac version does work with MS Word's Drag&Drop or Copy&Paste features when you want to insert equations made with MathMagic, but the auto-baseline feature is not working with MS Word on Mac yet.
MathMagic Windows version can work with MS Word by using OLE instead of Drag&Drop or Copy&Paste. When inserted via OLE, the auto-baseline on Windows is supported.
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Do you support Color in equations?
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MathMagic Personal Edition and Pro Editions have supported Color equations since version 4.0 on Mac, and version 2.0 on Windows.
You can apply color in RGB or CMY or in Gray. Colors can be manged per document or globally with name and style. Pro Editions support Over print. But MathMagic does not fully support Color Profile and Spot color yet.
MathMagic XTension for QuarkXPress 3.3~4.1 supports color (per equation box) through Quark's Color sub-menu under the Style menu. It's just like applying color to a character, but each equation box can have only one color at a time. The applied color can be used for PDF or color printing but when you need to use color-separation, colored equations may not work with color trapping.
MathMagic Pro Edition v2.0 for Windows supports automatic sync'ing of color styles between MathMagic Pro application and Adobe InDesign's Swatch list. MathMagic Pro Macintosh version will support color sync'ing in the future.
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What is MathMagic Viewer XTension for?
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MathMagic Viewer is a freeware version of MathMagic XTension, which can view and print QuarkXPress documents containing equations created with MathMagic XTension. Printing service bureaus, who don't need to edit mathematical equations, can use this Viewer XTension to print documents containing mathematical expressions created with MathMagic XTension. MathMagic Viewer is available for free and it comes with required MathMagic fonts.
MathMagic Personal or Pro Edition does not require MathMagic Viewer XTension. If you create equations with MathMagic PE or Pro, and use them in other word processors or graphic software, you can simply drag&drop onto the other software. Then it will automatically convert the format into PICT/WMF/OLE format underneath. Or, you may convert the format into EPS or JPG if you like.
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Is MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress compatible with MathMagic XTension?
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The equation formats used to insert the equations are not compatible.
Equations created with MathMagic XTension for QuarkXPress 3~4 have MathMagic's own format. But those created with MathMagic Pro Edition are stored in standard EPS format in the QuarkXPress document.
So when you upgrade to MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress, you may not see or print those equations created with QuarkXPress 3 or 4.
Equations created with MathMagic XTension can be copied from MathMagic XTension window & pasted into MathMagic Pro window. But the reverse is not supported.
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Do you have Multi-user pricing or Site-License Pricing?
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Yes, we do.
Please visit here for the details. If you need more information that is not listed here, please contact us.
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Do you have a plan to release the Universal Binary version for Intel based Macs?
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Yes, we do. The release schedule for Universal Binary is not fixed yet, but we hope to release it within 2008.
MathMagic v5.3x or later for Mac has been tested on Intel Macs and runs well and fast.
MathMagic Pro for QuarkXPress v5.4x or later comes with MathMagic XTension for QXP 7 and 8 in Universal Binary format to support QuarkXPress 7 and 8 on both PowerPC and Intel based Mac's.
WeMathMagic Pro for InDesign v5.5x or later comes with MathMagic plug-ins for InDesgin CS3 in Universal Binary format.
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Are MathMagic Windows versions compatible with Windows Vista?
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Yes, they are.
We have tested MathMagic v3.51 on Windows Vista.
The installer, fonts, and applications worked without any major problems.
However, if your account does not have enough privilege to access the Registry or your Firewall setting blocks MathMagic Pro from communicating via TCP/IP protocol with MathMagic Plug-ins or XTensions, there might be an error. This can be resolved if you change those Security/Firewall setting.
We will also keep watching to see if any compatibility issues are found or reported for a while. If you have any specific concerns, please feel free to contact us.
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