Re: Excel charts

After reading the original post I tried the PDF route (both saving-as and
printing, from Excel 2008. The graph elements come through as a collection
of images and the labels are garbled. Lines don't seem to get across, either
in the graph or as the axes.


- John Gersh


On 9/10/09 12:13 PM, "Joel Page" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, I totally misread that -- Not enough coffee.
> 
> That said, I'd suggest printing to PDF from Excel, then directly
> opening the PDF in OmniGraffle Professional (not placing the PDF as an
> image), hopefully all of the vector information will make it in and
> not be too complicated.
> 
> Joel
> 
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Michael Styles Verruto wrote:
> 
>> I *think* he is asking more so about a graphic element than editable
>> table... I have a similar need!
>> 
>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Joel Page wrote:
>> 
>>> You should be able to paste when you have a text insertion point,
>>> and get an RTF table as a result.
>>> 
>>> There's no way to convert to an OmniGraffle table as of yet, but
>>> this is better than an image.
>>> 
>>> Joel
>>> 
>>> On Sep 10, 2009, at 8:19 AM, Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I work in a research Lab where a lot of charts are done in Excel.
>>>> Up to know, people used to copy the charts and paste in
>>>> Illustrator where they can be modified (they are vector-based).
>>>> We can copy and past to OmniGraffle, but then, there is no way to
>>>> still edit the charts. They are pasted as a picture.
>>>> 
>>>> Does anybody have any tip that would help us dump Illustrator and
>>>> use OmniGraffle all the way?? Any way to have the Excel 2008
>>>> charts editable in OmniGraffle?
>>>> That would be BIG for us (and many of the other Labs I know where
>>>> people don;t want to use OG because of that :-\  ).
>>>> 
>>>> If it's not currently possible, that would make a great new
>>>> feature in a future version of OGŠ (Joel??)
>>>> 
>>>> 
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