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Paul B

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May 10, 2002, 10:59:45 AM5/10/02
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Does anyone have expierience printing Excel charts via Adobe Acrobat v.5 to
a .PDF file?

I've got a page with 3 charts, one at the top of the page, one in the
middle, and one at the bottom. When I print it to a printer, it prints
fine. However when I print to a .PDF the lines on the charts show up
displaced upward on the chart, a little further upward for each succesive
graph on the page. The last chart doesn't show the graph on the chart at
the values it is supposed to be shown.

Is there some setting somewhere (probably in Acrobat) that has to be tweaked
to get my charts to look correct in the .PDF file? The only way I've got to
make them turn out right is to print normally, then scan them to a graphic
file, THEN print to a .PDF. I'd rather figure out how to get the programs
to work correctly.

Thanks,
Paul


Debra Dalgleish

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May 10, 2002, 1:52:47 PM5/10/02
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What version of Excel? When I print charts 3-up in Excel 2002 or output
to a pdf file with Adobe Acrobat 5.0 the results are almost identical.

Are these line charts in which the line series are shifting, or another
type of chart in which the gridlines are shifting?

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May 10, 2002, 3:21:36 PM5/10/02
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We would have that problem in Ver. 4 and Ver. 3

hit file > print using the PDF writer rather than the distiller click
on print properties and select resolution as screen

this solved about 95% of all of our issues however we still
occasionally have to take screen captures and embed them as images..

Paul B

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May 13, 2002, 10:17:13 AM5/13/02
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Thanks, this set me on the path to get it working. I actually went the
other way though since I typically use the PDF writer rather than the
distiller (I'm not sure what the difference is, I'll have to get the manual
from IT services).

Using the distiller and the screen resolution it came out allright. Not
exact, but acceptable. It was even smaller in size than the way I had been
doing it.

Thanks again
Paul
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