| Copy/Pasted Excel Chart Prints and Exports to PDF at Low Resolution | | KBA-01387-TR804B | | Affects | | QuarkXPress 7.x and 8.x | | Summary | When I Copy/Paste an Excel chart into my QuarkXPress layout, it displays and prints at low resolution. Is there a way for me to get a higher resolution of my pasted Excel charts in QuarkXPress?
| | Solution | You can resolve this issue in one of two ways.
- The chart will print correctly if the Excel chart is imported instead of Copy/Pasted, i.e. Printed as Vector format that references a source image.
- Export a PDF from Excel and import it into QuarkXPress rather than Copy/Pasting the chart.
Background:
In QuarkXPress 7 the graphics engine was rewritten to use Quartz instead of QuickDraw on the Mac and GDI+ instead of GDI on Windows. One drawback to this change is that it was no longer possible to embed vector data into the preview structure. If you import a vector PICT or WMF into QuarkXPress 7 as a graphic file it will output just as it did in legacy versions. This is because we have a file reference which contains the correct vector data, Because QuarkXPress has no method to embed the vector data, it displays a rasterized preview, but when you print, there is no vector file reference. Therefore QuarkXPress sends the preview at low resolution. | | Article ID | | AE0295 |
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