Excel 2008 12.1.3 Save as Postcript problems.

[l2oBiN]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am attempting to save an excel worksheet as a postscript file. The worksheet contains a combination of graphics (Gradiented shapes and various lines),a photo and formatted text (bold,underscript and different fonts and color). The resulting .ps file has abberant replacement of certain charactes and letters with other characters. Printing as a pdf with adobe acrobat or straight hard printing the worksheet does not produce these problems. Could someone outline why this is happening in excel 2008, and how can I eliminate it.

 

[l2oBiN]

Could someone please help me with this problem.

 

[CyberTaz]

Well, I don't know what you expect from this group, and I doubt there are
many who attempt to convert workbook files to postscript.

Excel does not have any facility to output to postscript so you must be
using some other program to do so. If that program renders less than
desirable results you'll need to get support on the issue from the developer
of that software. There's nothing you can do from within Excel to control
how another program converts its output.

I'm sorry I don't have anything to offer, but it truly doesn't appear to be
a problem with Excel, itself - especially since your other output is fine.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[l2oBiN]

Hi Bob,

Postscript output seems to be an excel function.
I am using file>print>pulldown menu at bottom left hand corner> save as postscript. This is an office functionality, I beleive and not a third party plugin etc.

 

[CyberTaz]

Now I see where you're getting it from, but that's actually not an Office
feature All facilities in the Print dialog are OS X services. I haven't
used that one at all so I can't comment on how good/bad a job it does... It
depends on what postscript interpreter it uses, and based on how far behind
the PDF generator is I doubt that it's the most current.

Is the degradation resulting in actual printed output to a PS-compatible
printer or are you seeing it only on screen (in Preview)? Preview is not a
PS-compatible app - I believe it has to convert to PDF in order to open the
file. If you have the Acrobat driver installed have you tried creating the
PS output with it selected rather than some other driver? What happens if
you generate the PS file from a PDF version?

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[l2oBiN]

Once the postscript file is generated I open it in photoshop, which enables me to specify the correct resolution etc. Creating a pdf from the file does not provide me with a high enough resolution.