Re: anti-aliased Excel Charts in Powerpoint Printouts

In article <A42AE9B1-1CE8-40FD-92EA-D32C325397C1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christophe wrote:
Thank you both.

These are pie charts, yes, as per the old "jaggies" thread. Normal, not
expanded.

To ... er ... expand on that a bit ...

They used to go jaggy if you pulled a slice out of even a flat pie chart.
That seems no longer to be the case.

But 3D pie charts look like the puppy's been teething on them, either way; as is
or sliced, diced, pulled and expanded.

But I will see if they can be ungrouped. I doubt it: straight out
of Excel.

As long as they're not copied as a picture, they can be ungrouped. Of course, by
that time, the damage may already be done; you may get loads of line segments
which, taken together, strongly resemble a very jaggy Excel pie chart.

Try copying from Excel then in PPT do Edit, Paste Special and choose EMF (Enhanced
Metafile). I tried most of the options and that gives me the best results here.




"Steve Rindsberg" wrote:

In article <B77EB908-4B7A-43F1-9AF5-BD89DE0B0EE7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Christophe
wrote:
If you print a chart from Excel 2003, it is anti-aliased and look fine in
print. But no matter how you paste in into Powerpoint, printed Excel charts
from Powerpoint are not anti-aliased.

Has anyone come across this before (it is easy to replicate) and is there a
fix? Has Powerpoint not been updated for anti-aliasing like Excel has?

What type of charts are these? There are a few known problems with 3d pies,
especially ones that have slices "expanded". Most others seem ok.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
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