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mbeaumont1-Visitor
1-Visitor
December 11, 2018
Question

Chart component print quality

Does anyone else have the problem where the print quality of the chart components is abysmal?

 

When I print my Mathcad worksheets to .pdf the text and maths comes out great but the charts look a jpeg that has been saved 1000 times on Windows XP.

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LucMeekes23-Emerald IV
23-Emerald IV
December 11, 2018

Mathcad's graphing facilities leave things to be desired.

Prime's graphing facilitities leave many, many more things to be desired.

 

Strength!
Luc

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    Raiko17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    December 11, 2018

    That's the way it is with PTC; see here:

     

    https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Mathcad-Prime-5-0-Chart-Tool-is-turning-out-to-be-a-big-MESS/m-p/570052#M182251

     

    Raiko

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    ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
    24-Ruby IV
    December 11, 2018

    I use the Print Screen button (PrtScn-F7) for the solve this problem.

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      ValeryOchkov24-Ruby IV
      24-Ruby IV
      December 11, 2018
      @ValeryOchkov wrote:

      I use the Print Screen button (PrtScn-F7) for the solve this problem.

      Fewer and fewer people know why a button PtrScn has a name Print Screen.
      Do you know?

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      Raiko17-Peridot
      17-Peridot
      December 11, 2018

      Hello Valery,

       

      I suppose because it reads out the screen cache to render a vector graphic?! I'm just guessing.

       

      Raiko

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      terryhendicott21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      December 12, 2018

      Hi,

       

      I use PDF Creator 3.3.2 free application for printing to PDF.  Graphics are OK.

       

      Terry

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      terryhendicott21-Topaz II
      21-Topaz II
      December 12, 2018

      HI,

       

      Sorry wrong example.

      Here numbers are crisp even at high magnification.

      PDF Creator 3.3.2

       

      Terry

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      mbeaumont1-VisitorAuthor
      1-Visitor
      December 12, 2018

      Hi Terry,

       

      yeah, numbers and text all print to pdf perfectly - however the chart component which was introduced in Prime 5.0 looks like garbage when printed.

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