pie chart printing issue

[Randy Hills]

Trying to print 3d pie charts with blended fills in pp2003. Fills print
out as solid color squares going outside of chart borders.

thanks
R

 

[Sandy]

Does this happen when printing in Black & White or Grayscale? If so try this:

In PPT 2002/2003:
View > Color/Grayscale
Select Pure Black & White (a grayscale tool bar will appear)
Make sure that your chart is selected.
In the Grayscale tool bar select the Settings drop down menu.
Choose gray scale.

Sandy

 

[Randy Hills]

Does this happen when printing in Black & White or Grayscale? If so try this:

In PPT 2002/2003:
View > Color/Grayscale
Select Pure Black & White (a grayscale tool bar will appear)
Make sure that your chart is selected.
In the Grayscale tool bar select the Settings drop down menu.
Choose gray scale.

Sandy


:

Sandy: this happens in color, to a variety of printers, in greyscale to
a variety of printers. Doing as you suggested has no effect. I am trying
to print in color as a final product

Randy

 

[Randy Hills]

PowerPoint seems to have a variety of problems with blended fills on a variety
of printers.

Try losing the blends and see if that helps.

Steve: it does help the printing issue, just doesnt help the cosmetic
issue at all.

Another possible wrinkle is that this prez has been back and forthed
between a PC and a Mac several times.

We are dealing with a "user-defined" pie chart, and if I go in and
reapply the "user-defined" chart type, then the printing anomaly seems
to get corrected.

Would be nice to know what is causing this issue, to save some frustration

thanks
Randy
(but its a dry cold) actually it is a beautiful day here - +17C

 

[Randy Hills]

Ah. That may be quite significant. Between the two, charts go through
conversions (I think we may want to spell that "convulsions") that might end up
in you getting back PICT graphics. Guessing here, but as I recall, these can
support gradients where WMFs can't. IAC, I'd try a few rounds of not letting
Macs touch the graphs and see if that helps.

Another trick that might help is to make some small bitmap images that are
gradients and use those to fill the graph instead of PPT's grads.

Steve: I suspected that it could be a PC/Mac issue. Is it possible to
save "user-defined" chart types and share them with other PC users? I
could not find any way to do this.

Or as overindulgers are wont to claim ... "But it's a DRY heave"

another beautiful day here, for late October north of the ~53rd parallel

Randy

 

[Randy Hills]

Thanks for all your help Steve. Still don't know what causes the
problem, but we have a work around, and will try sharing the
user-defined graphs

Randy