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MS Office Forum / Excel / Charting / January 2008Anti aliasing fonts in titles and axes?
Hi, I'm working with Excel 2007, and I am pretty happy with the antialiased lines in the charts. However, the text for the axes and the axis titles is not anti aliased. I must be missing something, because i can't believe they wouldn't include this after antialiasing the charts. I'm looking at them in Excel, and pasting them as EMFs to a word document, and the fonts are not antialiased in either. So, does anyone know how to turn this on? I'm so close to being able to make scientific quality charts in Excel. Thanks for any help. >Hi, I'm working with Excel 2007, and I am pretty happy with the antialiased >lines in the charts. However, the text for the axes and the axis titles is [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >antialiased in either. So, does anyone know how to turn this on? I'm so close >to being able to make scientific quality charts in Excel. What fonts are you using at the moment?  SignatureDel Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to del@branta.demon.co.uk, which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. I'm currently using Garamond. Thanks for any help. > >Hi, I'm working with Excel 2007, and I am pretty happy with the antialiased > >lines in the charts. However, the text for the axes and the axis titles is [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > What fonts are you using at the moment? I think if you set up ClearType in Windows, you'll get your antialiased text. I know ClearType antialiases text in Excel 2003 charts. I hated the fuzzy text, so I turned off ClearType. I also hate the antialiased lines in Excel 2007 charts. Try copying the chart as a picture and pasting it for use in another application. It is absolutely ugly, an abomination of visual display. The fuzzy text caused by ClearType was bad enough, but the chart elements are badly distorted, and you can't turn it off. Just my opinion, of course. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ > I'm currently using Garamond. Thanks for any help. > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] >> >> What fonts are you using at the moment? >I think if you set up ClearType in Windows, you'll get your antialiased >text. I know ClearType antialiases text in Excel 2003 charts. I hated the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >ClearType was bad enough, but the chart elements are badly distorted, and >you can't turn it off. I'm sorry to hear the lines look bad. I was looking forward to anti-aliased symbols, as it's one of the most ugly things about the line and scatter charts I try to create in pre-2007 XL. Also the lack of anti-aliasing in Autoshapes, leading to ugliness like this: http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/del_c/infographics/rockstar.png I tried various techniques to maximise the size and thus the resolution of an Excel chart, to avoid the mess with the little human figures, and that was the best I managed. (PS if I was doing that chart today, it would be Tornado, not Stacked Bar) SignatureDel Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to del@branta.demon.co.uk, which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. >>I think if you set up ClearType in Windows, you'll get your antialiased >>text. I know ClearType antialiases text in Excel 2003 charts. I hated the [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > (PS if I was doing that chart today, it would be Tornado, not Stacked Bar) I would make a dot plot with two series. Since the tornado series go in opposite directions, it's hard to compare them. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ |
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