Sadly, Excel has extremely limited graphics capability. If you really
want a graph you can edit, use R to make the graph from the excel data.
That can be saved as svg or pdf in true vector format that is completely
editable. Course you might not need to edit it if you use R to its
potential.
Enjoy,
Alex
On 04/14/2013 03:36 AM, Jurgen Gaeremyn wrote:
Hello list,
for an article I need to edit a graph made in Excel (2007).
This is my current workflow:
1. In Excel: Print to PDF (using Cute PDF)
2. Open the PDF file in Inkscape
The big caveat is: text items don't behave well at all. They are really
naughty :p
-> when changing fonts or size, the spacing doesn't adapt (so text gets
squashed when a bigger font is chosen)
-> certain text elements that don't belong together, all of the sudden
become one item (f.e. the scale items and the R² text, but the ² is a
different text block)
Currently, the only solution I see, is retyping all the text manually.
Obviously, this is quite a waste of time.
I hope some of you know a better solution for this...
Thanks,
Jurgen.
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