Office Professional 2007 to PDF

[Fred]

We have just installed Office Professional 2007 on some of our systems but
are having trouble with the quality of PDF. This was not a problem with 2003
and Adobe. The problem is specifically with charts and tables pasted into
Word from Excel or other programs. The only way around this so far is by
bolding the text in charts and tables but with large reports this is not a
good idea. I have tried formatting (brightness & contrast) but that has not
worked.
How can I improve the quality.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Quoting from
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=333504 :

"Acrobat 8 shipped prior to Microsoft Office 2007. Therefore, we are
currently actively testing Acrobat with the shipping version of Office
2007 and Office 2007 files. In the first half of 2007, we expect to
issue a free Acrobat 8 patch that will provide support for Office 2007.

Acrobat 7.0 and earlier will not support Office 2007 or Office 2007 files."

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Fred,

Are you getting the same result with the MS Office 2007 XPS/PDF add in using both the PDF and XPS formats?

If you use Edit=>Paste Special what format are the charts pasting in as?
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We have just installed Office Professional 2007 on some of our systems but
are having trouble with the quality of PDF. This was not a problem with 2003
and Adobe. The problem is specifically with charts and tables pasted into
Word from Excel or other programs. The only way around this so far is by
bolding the text in charts and tables but with large reports this is not a
good idea. I have tried formatting (brightness & contrast) but that has not
worked.
How can I improve the quality.>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Fred]

Bob, the process that we use is to produce charts in Excel and then simply
copy and paste into word. The quality looks OK in Excel (although not as
brillaint as in 2003) but in Word 2007 for example the y axis looks very
faded like a soft grey as apposed to black. When this is PDFed using the
micrsoft addin - the end result when reading with Adobe 7 is that the quality
is very poor, hardly a document that we would want to send our clients. I
tried with a third party PDF ( Cute PDF) with the same results so the problem
seems to stem from the original document. We currently save a word 2003 to be
compatable with the rest of the office but saving as XPS makes no difference.
The only way we seem to be able to get anywhere near the required quality is
by making the X and Y axis bold.

I hope this helps and thank you for attention. I am happy to send a sample
if you tell me how.
Cheers
Fred

 

[Fred]

Hi Bob, we sem to have figured what part of the problem is. When we click on
a chart in Excel and select 'Font' the default is +Body. If we change this to
Arial, for example, this makes a big difference. The cart in Word as well as
the PDf looks pretty good. How can we make Arial the default?
Fred

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Are you copying & pasting from Excel 2003 or 2007?

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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