I tried to made portable (ThinApp 4.7) the following two apps, on a WinXP environment:
MS Word 2003 + Mathtype 6.8 (latest version).
Mathtype is the Pro version of the (pre-Office 2007 exclusive) MS integrated Equation editor. It is necessary for MS Word files that are passed to publishing houses.
In my attempt, I found the following strange pattern:
- If I virtualize just MS Word 2003 with its own equation editor, the equations are made and open correctly. This was not true, as far as I remember, when I used ThinApp early versions (4.0 for instance).
- Yet if I virtualize also Mathtype with Word, I had the following result: The equations are created OK, but they cannot be modified (i.e. reopened). If I try I get the following warning: "The object was created in Equation. This equation is not available....etc". This occures also when Mathtype is already open as a server (a feature of MT that leaves the application in the taskbar).
Is there someone that can help in understanding if the marriage is possible or not? And in the former case in which way. I know that the issue is about Ole/com objects which are used by the equations of Mathtype, as they are also used by the internal Equation Editor of MS Word 2003. But precisely for that, it seems strange that scenario 1 works, and scenario 2 does not.
Thanks for any feedback.
Anthony