On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 PM, DHP <[email protected]> wrote: > This was really helpful to me! So helpful that I wrote a small (windows) > guide for getting Excel graphs into LyX via .eps-conversion in INKSCAPE. > > I hope this will be helpful to future readers: > > 1) In Excel, select graph and "File > Print". > > 2) In Print, choose "Printer: Foxit Reader PDF Printer" or similar. Press > "Print" and "Save as...". > > 3) Open resulting .pdf in INKSCAPE. > > 4) Select graph by left-clicking it. With the graph selected, go to "File >> Document Properties". > > 5) Expand "Resize page to content..." and press "Resize page to drawing or > selection". > > 6) Select all (Ctrl+A) and press "Ungroup selected groups" (Ctrl+Shift+G). > Repeat until the bottom status bar reports "No groups to ungroup in > this selection". > (This step will keep the text intact). > > 7) Save file as .eps and import to LyX as usual. > Please consider putting this on our wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/ , a much better place to share such knowledge if you hope future users to read it.
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