Thanks for all the suggestions.  I'm in the happy place of being able to
hand them all off to someone else to experiment with!

Thomas



On 09/24/2008 11:49 AM, Wayne Graham wrote:
> A couple of other options, depending on what you need (JEuclid will
> probably do what you need).
> 
> I haven't had to do this on a big project, but I had MathML I needed in
> laTeX (created images I needed from that). There's a nice converter at
> from MathML to TeX at https://webwork2.math.ohio-state.edu/xalan/index.php
> 
> You may also check out this post from Oxide interactive. They've got a
> nifty example of converting mathml to an image if the browser doesn't
> support the actual rendering (source and demo are down the page).
> 
> http://www.oxideinteractive.com.au/articles/practical-mathml/
> 
> Wayne
> 
> Thomale, J wrote:
>> I haven't used it myself, but it looks like JEuclid would do what you
>> need--it includes a command-line tool for converting MathML to a
>> variety of different image formats.
>>
>> http://jeuclid.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> Jason Thomale
>>
>>
>>  
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>> Thomas Dowling
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:33 AM
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] MathML->image conversion?
>>>
> Code4Libbers--
> 
> To support some commercial e-books that we load locally and publish to
> our users with XTF, we need to handle formulas marked up in MathML.
> 
> For their own web site, the book publisher farms this out to a
> third-party vendor that somehow converts the MathML to inline images
> for
> display in HTML pages.  The publisher is unable or unwilling to tell us
> what their vendor uses for the job.
> 
> I'm all for sending MathML down the pipe (caveat browsor), but our
> e-book guru hasn't been able to slip it through XTF.  If that isn't an
> option, does anyone know a tool to convert possible large sets of
> MathML
> formulas to PNG (or GIF) images?  I've run across similar converters
> for
> LaTeX, but not MathML.
> 
> 

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