How to: Mathematical Equations in Illustrator CS3 +

One feature that doesn't exist in Illustrator (or I haven't find it yet!), is a way to add Mathematical equations into illustrations. Having search the internet there are a few plugins that allow that to some extend. Personally I found one another way to do it, combining Illustrator, Photoshop, (Acrobat - not necessarily) and the Free OpenOffice Math tool.
If you are interested, or if you ever need this, you can refer to this guide:
http://xvp.gr/tutorials/illustrator_math_eqs/
The basic idea is to export in vector-PDF file, the math equations that you have develop with any program (i.e. MSOffice, or OpenOffice(which I prefer)). Then you can raster the equation in high resolution through photoshop (from the vector-PDF file), and trace it to perfect outlines via illustrator.
Btw. OpenOffice Math tool, is an open source tool, that Adobe can utilize thus to make automatical this procedure in it's next suite. Simple and easy without having to mess with complicated implementations... :)

I use MathType to make equations for years.
And it works fine with all Adobe (and NOT only Adobe!) software.

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