Questions tagged [latexit]

about math equation editor on Mac OS and various export formats

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LaTeXiT does not render anymore

I have a weird problem with LaTeXiT 2.8.0 on MAC 10.11.5 It isn't rendering anymore. Even a simple \alpha isn't shown although there is no error message. I tried all different modes like Align, Display, Inline, Text and even Auto. Drag and drop my…
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LaTeXiT is cropping the pdf

I am using LaTeXiT (pierre chachatelier, www.chachatelier.fr) - latex equation editor for Powerpoint for mac. It's producing pdf that appear to be "cropped" on top (see attached) - I've tried already with changing the "margins" option…
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Thunderbird, LatexIt! extension - convert failed with error code 1

Since recently deleted from StackOverflow for being off topic, I would like to repost the following question (originally asked by User Фадиме Бекмамбетова): When using the LatexIt! extension for thunderbird on Ubuntu I get the error: LatexIt! run…
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Drag and drop from LaTeXit to PowerPoint

I am using LaTeXiT 2.8.0, MacTeX 2015 and PowerPoint 15.18 on OS X 10.11. Dragging and dropping from LaTeXiT to PowerPoint does not work. The equation simply doesn't appear in PowerPoint (there's no error message). However, copying and pasting…
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LaTeXit show just the first page

I'm a beginer in Latex and I like to learn about it, as I'm user Mac, I installed LaTeXit, but I have multiple problems. I begin to write in the editor area, but I just get the first page of the document, I don't know why. Here an screenshoot: I…
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LatexIt compile very slow

Is it possible to increase the compile speed for LatexIt? It takes about 5 second for me to compile, even for an empty document.
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LaTeXiT issues on new brew install of MacTex

Just installed MacTex with brew and then updated MacTex on my son's MacBook. Opened LaTeXiT and immediately see two errors: 1. ghostscript not found or does not work as expected The current configuration of LaTeXiT requires ghostscript to…
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Linkback just can't work in LaTeXiT!

I'm new to OS X and LaTeXiT for a week. I can use the 'Detect and typeset equations' successfully in the 'Service' menu of Pages, then it produces the right things which should be. However, I can't double-click the picture to edit the LaTeX code.…
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Paragraph ended before \align*

I need help learning how to use LaTeXiT. I keep getting the following error, no matter what I try (be it different codes, or very basic "hello world" codes). Paragraph ended before \align* was complete. Can anyone help me at least learn how…
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LaTexIt doesn't render after using the library

If I don't use the LaTexIt library everything is fine. However once I display an equation from the library LaTexIt no longer renders. It seems that using the library screws up the scaling as when I drag the scroll bar down in the top window I can…
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Latextit behaves crazy

I have LaTeXIt in a Mac running High Sierra. I cannot understand why a simple think like this: \theta = 2\pi does not display anything, but \theta = 3\pi does.