I tried that and got some improvement, but there is still a significant visual difference between the text brought in as .rtf, and an image file from a screen shot inserted. I think I need to make a higher quality .pdf, which means buying Acrobat or similar. Are other users struggling with this? I have quite a bit of information that I add to my drawings in table form, mostly made in Excel. The only solution there seem to be to import an image made from a screen shoot. Thanks for the help.
the PDF engine in mac is very good, I stopped using excel but I import .xlsx into Numbers and export true vector PDF’s from there…
here’s an example file…Excel_sample.pdf (117.9 KB)
a .tiff [@ 300 px per inch] of this file is 20MB…
john
OK. I will keep trying. In the attachment which was exported from LO to PDF with all the settings suggested above, the screenshot image is fuzzier that the PDF insert. Thanks for your help.
Untitled.compressed.pdf (200.2 KB)
A screenshot will always be low resolution compared to native text, even with new high-resolution screens.
Anssi
OK. I had good results opening a .xlxs document in Numbers and exporting to .pdf, then inserting it in LO, then exporting the LO document to a .pdf. It is all a bit mysterious.
glad that helped, after my last fresh instal I decided to abandon ‘office’ because it’s never ‘really’ worked well on my mac’s…
Number will export the tables as real vectors and seems to produce quite good raster to pdf like the images found in my example file…
Creating them in Numbers would possibly be even better…
john