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Displaying dashed or dotted lines correctly in logarithmic scale?
I'm observing a problem already described in Article 214389 (regarding
tredlines in Excel2000 displayed incorrectly). I'm unable to print dashed or dotted lines in logarithmic scale correctly, even though they appear correctly on screen and in print preview (!). A dashed or dotted line does not appear to have any dashes, or only a portion of the line may have dashes, or the dashed line appears to be distorted, or of uneven spacing. I guess it's an unresolved bug. I'm only surprised it's been known since Excel2000, and not corrected! Are there any solutions to the problem? |
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Displaying dashed or dotted lines correctly in logarithmic scale?
In general, I find the performance of dashed and dotted lines
unsatisfactory. Sometimes they don't render properly (as in your case) and sometimes they are distracting when a different aspect of an illustration should be emphasized.. Whenever possible I avoid using these lines. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ "jure@geo" wrote in message ... I'm observing a problem already described in Article 214389 (regarding tredlines in Excel2000 displayed incorrectly). I'm unable to print dashed or dotted lines in logarithmic scale correctly, even though they appear correctly on screen and in print preview (!). A dashed or dotted line does not appear to have any dashes, or only a portion of the line may have dashes, or the dashed line appears to be distorted, or of uneven spacing. I guess it's an unresolved bug. I'm only surprised it's been known since Excel2000, and not corrected! Are there any solutions to the problem? |
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Displaying dashed or dotted lines correctly in logarithmic scale?
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, in microsoft.public.excel.charting,
"jure@geo" said: I'm observing a problem already described in Article 214389 (regarding tredlines in Excel2000 displayed incorrectly). I'm unable to print dashed or dotted lines in logarithmic scale correctly, even though they appear correctly on screen and in print preview (!). A dashed or dotted line does not appear to have any dashes, or only a portion of the line may have dashes, or the dashed line appears to be distorted, or of uneven spacing. I guess it's an unresolved bug. I'm only surprised it's been known since Excel2000, and not corrected! Are there any solutions to the problem? If you are trying to de-emphasize those lines, try leaving them solid, but make them a lighter gray instead of black. I can't swear it will work with Excel 2007, but give it a go. One warning: in my experience, some color printers render all hair-thickness lines as black, whatever color you set them to, so choose the next thickness up if you want them gray. Sometimes a single-thickness gray line turns out lighter than a hair-thickness black line (although a hair-thickness gray line would be even lighter if the printer honored it) -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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