Re: Excel charts

What I've discovered John is that not all PDF rendering engines are the same. I found with my print driver set to the acrobat 7 or 8 driver (I own the pro versions of both), the PDF was easily opened in OG Pro without an issue. However, the preview (default Mac OS X PDF engine)version seemed to have more objects not set correctly. I also found that Illustrator opened the PDFs up without any problem, but I couldn't just do a copy and paste from there either. 

You might still have to group some of the PDF objects, but they should come through for the most part if you save using PDF. 

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
>From: John Gersh <[email protected]>
>Sent: Sep 10, 2009 2:59 PM
>To: Wayne Brissette <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: Excel charts
>
>Wayne,
>
>I just whipped one up temporarily by typing a few numbers in a column,
>selecting them and clicking on a chart type.
>
>- John
>
>On 9/10/09 2:49 PM, "Wayne Brissette" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> John:
>> 
>> Do you have a single page chart? I'd like to try a couple of things.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Gersh <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: Sep 10, 2009 2:15 PM
>>> To: Joel Page <[email protected]>, Omnigraffle Support
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: 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 OG� (Joel??)
>>>>>>>