Comments on: Excel Add-in: Export Chart Feature

By: Excel Add-in: Export Chart Feature - Learn Excel

Excel Add-in: Export Chart Feature - Learn Excel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:25:10 +0000

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By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:08:38 +0000

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.

By: DSA

DSA — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:57:32 +0000

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.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:42:27 +0000

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.

By: Image File Type Comparison of Exported Charts » PTS Blog

Image File Type Comparison of Exported Charts » PTS Blog — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:40:11 +0000

[...] so much superior to JPGs for Excel charts. So he did a quick and dirty experiment, and reported in Excel Add-in: Export Chart Feature that there was not much [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:01:54 +0000

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?