On 06/28/2009 11:30 AM, Robert Peirce wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At 08:33 28/06/2009 -0400, Robert Peirce wrote: >> >Does anybody know how to do this? The instructions say to select >> >chart but the program (3.1 on OS X) tries to print the entire >> >spreadsheet and chart. All I want is the chart. >> >> There is an options in the Print dialogue to print "Selected cells", >> and I'd expect this to allow me to print just a selected chart. But >> - as you imply - this does not seem to work. >> >> It is easy, however, to copy and paste a chart into a text (Writer) >> document, and you can achieve what you need from there. Since you >> will have copied only the chart, a simple print may suffice, but in >> any case, choosing the print range as "Selection" will work for you in >> Writer. >> >> I trust this helps. > > It does. Thanks. This is pretty convoluted but until I find a better > way it will have to do. Ultimately I am trying to get it into a PDF, > which Excel and OS X can do directly. > > If the chart is not sized correctly to start with, the copy must be > resized. Fortunately you can do that in writer. Then it needs to be > saved to a PDF (via the print panel), which works as expected.
Select the _cells_ behind/around the chart. Then use the print selected cells. You can either use 'File|Export as PDF' or File|Print to a virtual PDF printer (PDFCreator for instance). Note: the chart is an object; it would be nice have have 'print selected object' feature in OOo. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
