docx if you wish to deal with this dreaded file format. doc, open it in Word and then save it as. I am sure you know this, but you can export as. This is particularly true for the Microsoft Word. In my experience, inserting images in a text handled by any regular text editor is asking for trouble. To be honest, images and text boxes should be used with caution and as inline entities if the target is to export to MS Word - the later handles those differently (and badly, in my opinion, but that's another matter). Regarding the locationing of equations and numbering (which I assume are the figure captions: I think those will benefit from doing them using auto-titles. Don't forget to uncheck Save format in the preferences when done. You may be able to locate the offending image and change it to a non-lossy image format such as png. Now, in the finder, you'll be able to Ctr-click the file and from the context menu open the "package" - and there view the images. You may be able to test this if: Open Mellel's preferences and under the Open and Save check Save Format: Save documents as packages. Either way, at some point along the way, the file will ALWAYS inflate to about the file size you've mentioned, unless the images come in a more concise format (like png or a vector based format).
There are two options to handle those: you can either compress them (as Mellel does on-the-fly when you use the compressed (as opposed to package) format, and as Microsoft Word, Pages, etc. rtf exported files is due to images (mainly. Second, regarding what you've written: I'll assume that most of the "inflating" of your. It is, though, 100% not obvious to find.įirst, I'm sorry that you've had such an experience with Mellel. If any of the issues are easily solved in Mellel, I will be more than glad to hear about the solutions. At least, if they moved upon exporting or changes, you can easily adjust just one item. But there, you can group such equation and the number and they stick together. Okay, that does happen in other programs as well. Basically, you do not have any option except for adding a new text box which you cannot easily align (no guides), will most likely cut the text if you do not manually expand, and 100% it will jump in some strange place when you try to export to any type of file except PDF. Trying to do the numbering of equations was a nightmare. Guess what? That worked! The icon does not work but the menu does! I asked in the support and they say the icons do not work when Live Bibliography is switched on. After some search, I have found a duplicate function for unscanning under EDIT > BIBLIOGRAPHY. When I wanted to unscan the document via the icons in the inspector, they were greyed out! Not clickable. At some point, I had to change the style of bibliography due to the change of the journal. I used Bookends extensively to build my bibliography with Live Bibliography function of Mellel. Some more issues I have mentioned in the beginning:ġ.
Phew, now I feel better: (i) I have unloaded my frustration with the software, (ii) I warned other scientists trying to write their paper in Mellel.
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Guess what? You cannot select two obects like equation (vector image) and text (numbering in the (1) format) which means Mellel does not support grouping! Or it is somewhere in a convoluted place and I was already sick and tired of that software to look for it thouroughly.Īll this happened on the they of submission. So I tried grouping the numbering and the equations. In my case, into the middle of other paragraphs with Mellel trying to nicely wrap the text around "(1)" and so forth. Nope, when you export the document and have numbered equations, the number shoot somewhere way off. I have tried not to open the file in Microsoft Word and smuggle the misalignments to the journal. Besides, the equations, which were imported vector graphics (because Mellel does not have equation support even if they boldly show equations in a scientific document in one of their examples which you can see during the trial!), are basically not readable. When I opened it in Microsoft Word to correct the misalignments and saved the changes, the file size bumped up to 198 MB. The file size got down to something 77 MB, but. I have tried to downgrade the dpi of vector graphics to 100 dpi. doc the file size increased to 156 MB! My settings included the convertion of vector graphics at 300 dpi which is a standard quality for scientific journals.
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It has equations, pdf graphs and one tiff figure. From the supported file types, I could only choose. I wrote a scientific article in the combination of Mellel and Bookends with some issues but overall it was a pleasant experience.