MARIUS RENN  Works great with Apple Pages, which was quite useless to me as a student, until I stumbled onto this piece of software. Thanks alot for this great software! I will be making a fitting template for Pages once I find time.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  Mathematical equations created with LaTeX can be exported to (almost) any graphics file format by using the shell script tex2im from freshmeat.net/projects/tex2im/! This should also hold true for the LaTeX Equation Editor (which is not listed at macupdate yet, see osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps).  
(Version 1.0)

BRUCE  This is a very nice program, nicely designed. It functioned just as advertised, namely to produce a latex expression as a snippet of pdf.

However, alas for me, the second part of the objective, to use this typeset material in Powerpoint, was problematic. I use Powerpoint X (it says) with OS 10.3. When I try to drag and drop a snippet, either from Eq. Serv. or from the desktop, PPT quits. I have to open the snippet in Acrobat, and put it onto the clipboard, which then I can paste into PPT. And then this has to be resized, which can only be done by dragging the bounding box handles -- very clumsy.

With my ThinkFree Office I cannot drag and drop nor can I paste from Acrobat, so I see no way to use Eq. Serv. with that application.

The good news is that I can paste from Acrobat into ClarisDraw (yes, in classic) and there the text resizing is easier and I can make nice viewgraphs and even a slideshow that I can turn into pdf and share or display under Windows.

I do think this is a very well done program, and there are probably going to be times when it will be useful for me.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  It's definitly worth ...  
(Version 1.0)

MICHEL DURINX  A great little helper, mainly if you use Keynote for presentations, or if you are writing an email and mention some maths:

write the LaTeX code, select it with the mouse, use it as a service and PRESTO!

nice .pdf instead of a heap of letters.

a) of course, transparent importing into PPT will not work: .pdf does NOT support transparency! If you export it as a gif with preview (only at 72dpi), it will stay transparent...

(you can also do that through the excellent GraphicConverter: import it at a suitable pixel-rate and convert it to gif). In Keynote, drag & drop of the .pdf will give a transparent

background (if demanded), beats me how they do it. b) major concern: it uses the LaTeX math typesetting language... any installation problems will likely result from that. This is just an app to dump in your applications folder, log out & in, and presto, the service works. The clue is that it is a verry small frontend for the huge LaTeX engine. The great thing is that it uses LaTeX... so if you're used to that, you can easily use it (or cut&paste from other papers) in a letter to no-so-proficient-TeXcode-readers.

For LaTeX, download the I-installer, follow the instructions and install the suggested set.

Searching Google for TeXshop will give you as --probably-- first match the page where to find the (much larger) TeXshop front-end --- more if you want to write an article or so --- and the I-installer for TeX and other stuff.

This should solve all problems re: installing.

Incidentally, I write all presentations in TeXshop, using the Prosper package for a .pdf presentation --- Keynote looks cooler for text, but the separate compiling+drag&drop for each calculation is a pain --- and changing style means that the math is marooned on a lonely place on the page:

the math is not part of the running text, so

top- or bottomalignment, or a different lettersize, or textcolor, means recompiling all bits & pieces...

But very useful for letters, indeed.

The program can surprise you at times, usually you have to choose another output-template.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  A pain to install (very complicated to get all of the unix components required installed), but well worth it. Works like a charm! Great program - write a better readme file which describes how to install it.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  I've been looking for that for a long time. Finally, I don't need M$ Word anymore.  
(Version 1.0)

ANONYMOUS  This app is excellent. The equations look sharp and scale well when imported into Keynote (all you have to do is drag the generated .pdf into the slide). It does not work so smoothly with Powerpoint because some people at some company wrote a program that does not cleanly import .pdf files. For use in Powerpoint it is best to save the output of equation service as a .pdf, then open in Acrobat and select a bounding box around the equation and copy. Pasting into PPT produces a high res equation.

Transparent backgrounds for the equations in Equation Service can be made by selecting background color in preferences and picking Developer from the pull down menu in the colors window. Selecting windowBackgroundColor from the color choices makes the background of of the equation transparent. This looks particularly pleasing in Keynote when using a fancy Theme. Transparency does not seem to work when importing into PPT. NOTE: Equation Service will crash when trying to restart if you leave the background color as windowBackgroundColor when quiting. This is a strange and mysterious error but is solved by changing the background color to some other color before quiting the app.  
(Version 0.5B)