On Sun, 23 Apr 2006, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, I said:

Now, there is a "solution", which is to paste as a bitmap. The thing is,
I was really hoping to get the improved picture quality that comes from
pasting as a vector graphic, then importing out of PP and into a
photo-manipulation program at much better resolution than Excel achieves
alone. So my problem boils down to:

1) Nothing except Word and PowerPoint seems to accept Excel charts as
vector graphics

2) Word and PowerPoint don't display the vector graphics properly when
the chart markers are custom pictures (either bitmap or MS's own
AutoShape system)

It happens every time, guaranteed: within seconds of committing this
article to Usenet, I ran across Jon's advice for finding the secret
Microsoft trick to exporting Excel charts as vector graphics:

http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ChartsH...ChartData.html

so I'm no longer limited to pasting into another Office application and
out of it to an external program.

The bad news is that every other application has the same problem:
pictures display fine, as long as the Excel chart doesn't use any custom
markers.

So, any ideas? Is there perhaps a special class of markers I can use
that are export-safe? Is it necessary to make the markers a special
fixed size, and if so, what size do they need to be? I'm not looking for
anything fancy, just some vertical and horizontal lines, and triangles
like the standard one, only pointing left, right, and down instead of
just up.

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