I'm on the Windows platform, and I recently upgraded to Quark 9.3 from Quark 6.52. I do a quarterly report (20 pages) that includes some graphs that I create in MS Excel. In 6.52, I used to be able to create the Excel graph, right click the graph and "copy" it, then move to Quark, select a picture box and "paste" the graph into the picture box, and a hi-res version of the graph would be placed in the picture box. The graph always printed at a very high quality on a laser printer.
I'm not able to do the same thing in Quark 9. When I try to copy the graph in Excel and paste it into an empty Quark picture box, I get a low-res image that only contains the bars of the graph - the data labels, graph title and axis titles do not appear. So then I tried creating a PDF of the graph and importing that into the picture box (I selected the graph in Excel, did File > Print and selected PDF as the printer.) I went into Quark, selected the picture box, and did File > Import and navigated to the folder containing the PDF of the graph. Quark did import the graph, but onscreen the graph is very pixellated/jaggedy edges, and when I print the page containing the graph, the data labels, axis labels, and titles (basically, all the text in the graph) is very rough looking, not sharp like they used to be when I was using Q 6.52. The graph has the same jaggedy appearance both onscreen and on paper, even when I try other PDF settings - High Quality Print, and Press Quality - in addition to Standard quality. In the PDF printer dialog box, the dpi is set to 600 for a Standard PDF and 2400 dpi for both the High Quality and Press Quality settings.
In Quark's Picture Import Help, there's a list of file types that are supported by Quark, including EPS, PDF, TIFF, etc.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can import the Excel graphs and end up with a nice clean image? Maybe save it first as a different file type and import that file?
Thank you very much for addressing this question!
John