Publisher to PDF

[Gerry]

Hi all. I have a publisher document which contains a number of graphs. When i
convert it to PDF the labels on X axis of the graphs are blacked out. They
are just Ariel font vertical text describing the values of the axis. I have
tried Adobe 6 & 7 with all updates but there is no difference, making me
believe it is a problem with publisher. Has anyone any ideas.
Thanks
Gerry

 

[Ed Bennett]

Hi all. I have a publisher document which contains a number of
graphs. When i convert it to PDF the labels on X axis of the graphs
are blacked out. They are just Ariel font vertical text describing
the values of the axis. I have tried Adobe 6 & 7 with all updates but
there is no difference, making me believe it is a problem with
publisher. Has anyone any ideas.

Can you email me your publication?

the UNDERSCORE nerd AT mvps DOT org

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[Ed Bennett]

Hi all. I have a publisher document which contains a number of
graphs. When i convert it to PDF the labels on X axis of the graphs
are blacked out. They are just Ariel font vertical text describing
the values of the axis. I have tried Adobe 6 & 7 with all updates but
there is no difference, making me believe it is a problem with
publisher. Has anyone any ideas.

Gerry sent me the Publisher and PDF files, and I was able to duplicate the
problem.

Looking at the file, it seems that the vertical text is being passed to
Publisher as a raster graphic from the Excel OLE server, instead of a text
object (as not all OLE clients can render vertical text, I would guess).

I would work around this problem by removing the axis titles from the source
files, and instead recreating them in Publisher. Or just put an opaque
white text box over the top of them with the correct text.