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rdelascasas12-Amethyst
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Copying equations from Mathcad 15 and pasting in word document

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I have copied and pasting equations from Mathcad 15 to paste in Word document. The word document will be edited to be part of a book.

the Editor told me that the quality of the equations was not good, that only had 96 dpi of resolution (I do not know what this mean). But for print, the quality of the equation, as seeing in the word document, has to be 300 dpi.

Does anyone have idea how I can improve the quality of copying and pasting equations in word documents?

thank you in advance,

 

Rogelio

Best answer by rdelascasas

To all,

 

the method I explained later did not work, even the entire page had 300 dpi, the equations still looked fuzzy.

what at the end I had to do is copy and paste each equation again. 

How?

I copy from Mathcad and use the paste special in word as follow: paste special>paste link>picture (windows metafile).

This is the only way I found to paste as windows metafile in word. After few paste equations, I have brake the links that are created, but this way has created the best quality, the editor, at last accepted this quality.

in the case of the figures, the editor was ok receiving the pictures separately in jpg format and he will put them where they belong. When I tried to insert the figures (that were created in Autocad) directly in my word document, they do not look good.

 

thank you to all for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Rogelio

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
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September 1, 2019

'dpi' means 'dots per inch'. it is a measure of how many picture-points (pixels, or dots) there are on one inch of length. If you have a pciture of 100 dpi, and it is one inch wide and one inch high, the picture consists of 100x100=10 000 picture points. 96 dpi is a common number for screen resolution.

 

I find I get the best resolution when I copy 2 or more Mathcad regions (so select two or more regions in mathcad and select 'copy' from the menu, or press [CTRL-C]').

Then in MsWord I use 'paste special' with the option 'Picture (Windows Metafile)'.

 

See attached MsWord file, if you zoom in to 200 % you can see the difference in resolution.

 

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Luc

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    rdelascasas12-AmethystAuthor
    12-Amethyst
    September 1, 2019

    thank you very much Luc.

    I will try this option. I will keep you posted with the outcome from the publisher editor.

     

    regards,

     

    Rogelio

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    MikeArmstrong1-Visitor
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    September 2, 2019

    You could always try the screenshot feature in Word - 'Insert tab, Screenshot' and select the Mathcad window. The window can then be clipped and resized.

     

    Mike

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    Paul-G-de-Jong1-Visitor
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    October 31, 2025

    There is a simple solution: Increase the font size. Doing that will make the image larger. Setting the font size to 46 and then changing the dpi from 72 to 300 will give you an image with 300 dpi and a font size of 11.

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