What should be a simple task....
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- Subject: [mg100654] What should be a simple task....
- From: "Nelson-Patel, Kristin" <knp at ll.mit.edu>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
Hi :) I am an analyst (applied physics and math) who has to present all of my work in Power Point briefings, sometimes on paper, sometimes electronically. I vastly prefer working in Mathematica to another system; however, I'm currently ham strung by my inability to transfer simple plots from Mathematica 7 to Power Point 2007 in a way that looks decent. In previous versions of both, I was able to Copy As: Metafile by right clicking on the plot in Mathematica and Paste Special: Metafile in Power Point, and all would be well (Ok, I had to tweak line thickness settings and fonts in my plots to make them survive the transfer, but that was fine). Now, I have select the whole cell rather than just the plot to get the Copy As: metafile option, and I have to go all the way to the menu bar to do it (no longer an option on the right click). Fine, I can deal with that, but I can't deal with the fact that my simple plots look completely ratty now upon pasting into Power Point. There's all this stair stepping in curves which should be smooth. I've played with the PlotPoints option-no effect. I've exported into different form ats with varying ImageResolution and imported; Either the fonts get screwed up or it looks even worse or there's ugly aliasing or no effect on the stair stepping. I've exported to PDF and snapshot-copied from there; The curves look good, but now the whole image is just a little bit blurry/soft, a little too much to pass muster with my supervisors and sponsors. I'm really getting frustrated now, have spent way too much time on what *was* a solved problem before my "upgrades", and beginning to suspect that the problem is some import or paste/display setting in Power Point that I can't reach. I really don't want to have two different briefings for electronic vs. paper presentation, but I'm a little concerned that's where this is heading, or I'm going to have to use the other system to make my plots. Which would bea shame. Has anyone figured this one out yet? Help, please-I'm crying uncle. This is one of those stupid simple problems that also happens to be quite fundamental to the ability to make good use of Mathematica. -Kristin
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