Under too tight a dealine for a learning curve right now. I have two Excel charts I need to recreate at high resolution for publication. One workbook, one sheet two small data sets, too fairly simple graphs, though with specific requirements, (B&W, high resolution, will be printed small "small" unspecified, but say a fifth to a third of a book page.) Then again. free or cheap, high resolution, and user friendly is asking for a lot. The "pick two" rule. I guess the next step is: find someone with decent graphing software and beg them to redo my two Excel charts for me.
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Typo Boy - Apr 05, 2011 12:24:06 pm PDT #16437 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Rick - Apr 05, 2011 12:46:57 pm PDT #16438 of 25501
I have a stubborn friend who prints out the Excel charts on a high quality printer, then scans them back in at the resolution required by the publisher. It is completely absurd, I know, but he's been getting away with it for years.
Typo Boy - Apr 05, 2011 1:01:23 pm PDT #16439 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
It is absurd that the entire Office Suite combined (including Publisher) won't do something that Harvard Graphics for DOS would do routinely in the freakin 80s.
Ginger - Apr 05, 2011 1:35:47 pm PDT #16440 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What kind of resolution do they need?
Typo Boy - Apr 05, 2011 3:02:07 pm PDT #16441 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
600 dpi
[On Edit] And dimensionally 5" X 7".
sarameg - Apr 05, 2011 4:35:30 pm PDT #16442 of 25501
This is probably a dumbass question, but there is a reason I am a systems analyst not at admin: I have gtalk on my itouch. It keeps telling me login failed and I know I am providing the right gmail username and password (I can get in through a browser on it.) WTH am I doing wrong? It used to work, but I think there have been upgrades since. (This is why I put off software updates, damnit.)
Jon B. - Apr 06, 2011 5:01:30 am PDT #16443 of 25501
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sarameg: Have you tried both (for example) "sarameg" and "sarameg@gmail.com" as usernames?
sarameg - Apr 06, 2011 5:35:30 am PDT #16444 of 25501
Yes. Poking around online, I see a LOT of issues like this. I think it is just a bad ap.
le nubian - Apr 06, 2011 5:38:21 am PDT #16445 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
sarameg,
have you tried talkatone? I think that should let you login to your google talk acct.
Typo Boy - Apr 06, 2011 11:42:38 am PDT #16446 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
OK Adobe has a free trial of illustrator. Not super user friendly, but a shorter learning curve than R. I made made a pie chart that looked good on the screen. Some of the contrast is poor when printed out full size, and I just have to play with shading on pie segments for that one. Shrunk to the size I want it displayed it looks awful, so I'm going to have think of how to keep text readable when you know it will have to shrink a lot. Any tips on this? Also I think I made it too big. I tried making it a lot bigger than their minimum to allow for problems, but maybe I just should make it a bit bigger. Because these graphs contain little enough info that they can I think look good at a half page, I'm trying to make Tiff file that will look good at both 5X7 inches and at 2X3 inches. I prefer the smaller size for various reasons. Excel version looks fine at 2X3 so I know it is possible. Tips welcome.