Well, I do not use Excel but OO-Calc. It reads Excel sheets to a certain degree...
then, after preparing the graph of a table in OO-Calc, I copy the graph to the OO-Impress (PowerPoint "clone"). This software allows me to export to jpg in quite high quality. Well OO is for free... Anybody with experience of this? -KB PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... (Sorry) On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, 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-tp586234p679451.html > Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Blum / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Tel. +49-441-798-3212 Fax: -3990