Excel Add-in: Export Chart Feature
Jon Peliter recently wrote about the differences and advantages between saving charts as .jpg or .png files. To test Jon’s add-in and see the difference, I included two charts from my last post saved as .png and .jpg respectively. The Excel add-in is amazing easy to use and is going to save me so much time from having to use an intermediate graphics program.
Click here to get Jon’s export chart add-in (scroll to the bottom of his post).
.PNG
.JPG
Can you see a difference?
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June 12th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Tony -
I see slightly more fuzziness of the text and axis lines in the JPG, but I see more in the PNG than I’d suspect. If I didn’t know this was a taste test, I may not have thought much of the difference. What version of Excel are you using?
June 12th, 2008 at 8:40 am
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June 12th, 2008 at 8:42 am
I’ve carried out my own test:
http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/2008/06/12/image-file-type-comparison-of-exported-charts/
Conclusion: It’s in the eye of the beholder. It also depends a lot on the version of Excel.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Jon -
I think the Excel 2007 .pgn format renders best from your experiment. I used Excel 2003 for this chart. The .jpg file is much larger if size is an issue. Thanks for the comment and post.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I have to admit that I don’t care for the antialiasing. It doesn’t matter to me if I see the individual pixels that make up a drawn line, especially if that means I can ungroup the chart and work with its constituent shapes. This ability was broken in Excel 2007, and I’d rather get it back and not have the antialiasing.
I guess I’m more of an engineer or technician than an artist.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:25 pm
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