PDF Conversion Nightmare\Office 2007

Atomic · 12 Jan 2008 at 16:30

I really do need help.

I'm using Office 2007, PDF995 and Adobe's PDF converter.

Bear in mind I've managed to take a screenshot of my desktop and copied that to Word 2007 and converted that nicely to a PDF format as a sort of test.

However...

I have created various line charts in Excel 2007 and have one column chart with a little drop shadow and gradient effects. The line charts can be converted without hassle to PDF format from either Office or Photoshop using either the save to PDF functions or print to PDF.

However, it all goes up in smoke when I try and convert the column chart to PDF. I create charts in Excel then transfer them to Word 2007 so all charts are in one document.

Basically the chart is just under A4 size and I want it converted to a PDF format as my work place doesn't have Office 2007 and they would like it in PDF format if possible. The chart however, when saved gets all kind of artifacts from either a white line in the chart series, blurry text or very pixelated text.

I'm tearing my hair out at this and would have thought it would be relatively easy to convert such chart to PDF format?

The chart is also 987 x647 pixels.

I also try to paste this chart into Photoshop with the PPI at 600, but when I select 'Print' the chart image becomes like one square inch in size on the A4 paper. Do I need to make the chart huge in Excel and then copy it to Photoshop?

Please help. Thanks

MarcLister · 12 Jan 2008 at 17:23

Have you tried the Microsoft PDF plugin?

Try something else like CutePDF to see if it is PDF995/Adobe's PDF convertor causing a problem or not.

Atomic · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:08

Still the same problem.

1) Original Image as it is in Word 2007 (transfered from Excel 2007)

2) Image has it is in PDF format straight from a Word 2007 conversion using Adobe's converter. I've also used other converters and had similar results. (Note, that I've had to use Photoshop to resize the image to the size of the original image as in PDF format for some reason the image increased a slight bit). As you can see there are artifacts in the conversion.

MarcLister · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:14

Hmm. So this is still with the Adobe plugin? Have you tried the Microsoft plugin? I'm still not sure whether its Adobe causing this or Office you see. That is why I want to make it all Microsoft then if it still happens it is Office going wrong. If it is OK then it suggests the Adobe convertor is the problem.

I'm just trying to eliminate what it could be.

benjo plz. · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:15

Change the dpi in the options? or just save it as a doc?

can you up a copy of the file to see if we can do it?

bledd · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:42

paste the screenshot of the graph into word and print that to pdf

Butters · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:47

I have no such issues with primopdf. A great tool and it has loads of custom options too.

Atomic · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:48

Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/83279256/Graph.docx.html

I've tried changing the DPI in options to 1200, 600 and others...Still far from perfect.

Obviously it appears fine in the Doc format, but I would like it in PDF format.

Atomic · 12 Jan 2008 at 18:54

bledd. said:
paste the screenshot of the graph into word and print that to pdf

When I do that the JPEG looks fine when it's opened in Photoshop or in a picture viewer, but when it's opened in Word - it looks blurry and text looks 'broken'.

benjo plz. · 12 Jan 2008 at 21:56

I found the best result was to create from clipboard in Acrobat, the texts not perfect, but that seems to be due to Word/Office more than anything else

Linky

Atomic · 12 Jan 2008 at 23:45

Thanks, but surely there must be a way to 'perfect' the transfer to PDF format?

Atomic · 13 Jan 2008 at 12:45

Phnom_Penh said:
I found the best result was to create from clipboard in Acrobat, the texts not perfect, but that seems to be due to Word/Office more than anything else

Linky

Actually that is very good!. What PDF converter did you use - that's the best result yet!

Problem is, I need four ohter charts to be in the PF document - althought th eline charts do appear to be fine. Just seems to be the style with gradients/drop shadow throwing things off.