I have been given a solution to this. Copy the chart as a picture: Shift+Edit Paste into Powerpoint Right click on chart in Powerpoint and "Save as picture" In this case the picture is saved as a .wmf that works with lyx and the quality is very good.
Dave Hewitt wrote: > > This won't be terribly helpful, but my short answer would be that there is > no way that qualifies even as good, let alone best, for most figures. I > hadn't made a figure in Excel in a long time, but I just did to muck > around. I couldn't figure out how to save the figure (chart) by itself as > an image. I saved the worksheet as a web page to force the chart into its > own image file, but it was a GIF. How did you get them into JPGs? Is this > Office 2007, the new and unimproved Office? Either way, the image that > came out was not good and couldn't be resized in an editor - forget the > reason why, something about scalable, vectorization... > > One thing I've done in a pinch is to make the image fill as much of the > screen as possible and use Print Screen, then paste that image into an > editor like GIMP. This will work to get "decent" resolution for simple > stuff, but I wouldn't do it for publications or any final product. > > > timtheenchanter wrote: >> >> Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way >> to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for >> example the quality of the finished document is poor. >> >> Thanks >> John >> > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Excel-graphs-into-Lyx-tp586234p683226.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
