[Mac OS X TeX] Excel Diagrams

[Bruno Voisin]

<x-flowed>>> I've got a lot of diagrams created in Excel that I've used in various
>> Word documents in the past with very good resolution. Copy and paste
>> into word retains the line drawing and the exported PDF is nice and
>> sharp. I was trying to get the same graphics into a TeX document and 
>> was
>> having all kinds of trouble. Basically they ended up as bitmaps
>> regardless of what I tried. Does anyone have any suggestions (Excel 
>> 98).
>
> If you can get a PDF of the diagrams, then you are home.

A procedure which seems to work:

- From Excel, print the diagram to a file in EPS format.

- Open the EPS file in Mac GS View and export it as a PDF. You must use 
the Classic Mac GS View 2.0b3 (from 
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/gsv20b3.htm), not the OS X Preview 
version (from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/macos/gsvosxpr.htm). 
Unfortunately, this version cannot export files properly at the moment, 
it looses fonts on the way.

Then you're home! (Note, too, the dramatic decrease in file size once 
you convert from EPS to PDF.)

Bruno Voisin

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