Outputting Gantt Charts from Project 98

[Jeff Chapman]

Hello all - I work with Project 98, and I've been having a
real whale of a time trying to get my Gantt chart outputted
the way that I want it. I want to paste a Gantt chart for a three-month
span into a Visio 2002 file. I have tried Copy Picture (for
screen, print, and to file), outputting to PDF and then
copying/pasting the relevant section into Visio as an
Enhanced Metafile, and more.

The main problems I have been having:
- the Task Name column gets cut off when using Copy as Picture
- the image resolution of GIF output looks poor when printed
- the month names in the timescale get cut off
- the size of picture data when pasted into Visio boosts the file size
up to 20MB (previously under 1 MB)

Does anybody know whether later versions of Project have better
and more robust image output and printing functions?

Thanks,

Jeff Chapman

 

[Reid McTaggart]

Yes. Project 2003 has much better imaging and printing. Still not
world-class, but much better than '98.

 

[Andrei]

Jeff,

I used to do the following in this case (although I am using MS Project
2003, but it shouldn't differ when PDF):
1. I PDF file with Acrobat.
2. I use Solid Converter PDF to convert to MS Word.

It gives you the clarity of Word when printing a text lines, yet preserving
the bars and formatting (especially when grouped, with color lines).

Probably it is not the best solution, but I guess converting Word files into
other MS programs is heaps easier then PDF files.

andrei