topic Chart component print quality in Mathcad

Chart component print quality

mbeaumont — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 07:06:09 GMT

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.

Re: Chart component print quality

LucMeekes — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 11:44:06 GMT

Mathcad's graphing facilities leave things to be desired.

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

Strength!
Luc

Re: Chart component print quality

Raiko — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:33:18 GMT

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

Re: Chart component print quality

ValeryOchkov — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:40:28 GMT

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

Re: Chart component print quality

ValeryOchkov — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:44:13 GMT

@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?

Re: Chart component print quality

Raiko — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:10:46 GMT

Hello Valery,

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

Raiko

Re: Chart component print quality

ValeryOchkov — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:41:44 GMT

@Raiko wrote:

Hello Valery,

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

Raiko

Sorry! No!

Re: Chart component print quality

ValeryOchkov — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:53:13 GMT

@ValeryOchkov wrote:

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

Re: Chart component print quality

terryhendicott — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:14:56 GMT

Hi,

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

Terry

Re: Chart component print quality

terryhendicott — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:18:08 GMT

HI,

Sorry wrong example.

Here numbers are crisp even at high magnification.

PDF Creator 3.3.2

Terry

Re: Chart component print quality

mbeaumont — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:32:40 GMT

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.

Re: Chart component print quality

Konrad_A — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:34:58 GMT

Same here. PDF Creator, default settings.

Re: Chart component print quality

Konrad_A — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 10:38:14 GMT

Ah, Prime 5. Installed-had a look at the menu-uninstalled.