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Display of Excel Component in MathCAD Prime

Display of Excel Component in MathCAD Prime

Status: New Idea Submitted by 3-Visitor on ‎Jul 09, 2020 12:36 PM
4 Comments (4 New)

When creating a Mathcad worksheet with an excel component, the excel presentation in Prime is low resolution and grainy and therefore cannot be used to provide professional looking tables in my calculations. The implementation of Excel OLE in Mathcad Prime is subpar when compared to Mathcad 15 (see attached for PDF outputs directly from Mathcad). I believe that Mathcad Prime only provides an image of the excel component (low resolution!) whereas Mathcad 15 actually used OLE to present the excel component in a legible format/table and did not just provide an image. I would like to see Mathcad Prime update its implementation of the display of the excel component like its predecessor did or it least make it presentable. Right now, it is unusable from a presentation aspect.

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Michael-Mills
6-Contributor
6-Contributor
‎Apr 14, 2021 10:52 AM
‎Apr 14, 2021 10:52 AM

To JMWeaver:

The examples provided are not much different as I view them.  However,.....

Yesterday I asked about some very distinct viewing differences from Mathcad Prime 6 to 7 when converting to *.pdf.  I got some efficient help and an answer. 

The solution is to publish the *.pdf file from Mathcad Prime 7 by means of the converter through the "Save As" selection.  When publishing through ADOBE Acrobat to the *.pdf, the grid lines are distorted and clearly a distraction, other problems are also present.  Using the "Save As" results in a good output to the *.pdf file. 

Hope this helps.

MGM

jmweaver
3-Visitor
3-Visitor
‎Apr 14, 2021 11:07 AM
‎Apr 14, 2021 11:07 AM

Unfortunantly this is still an issue in Mathcad Prime 7.0 even with the additional feature of being able to do a save as to PDF in Prime 7.0. If you look at the PDFs that I provided in the original post, you will see the excel table in Mathcad 15 is actually displaying truetype font that you can select; very crisp if you zoom in and print. In Mathcad Prime, the table is a low quality screen capture of the excel component. Text is not as crisp as the truetype font elsewhere in the worksheet and not even close to Mathcad 15.

 

Please try zooming in on the tables I provided. This is still a big issue for presentation.

Michael-Mills
6-Contributor
6-Contributor
‎Apr 14, 2021 12:16 PM
‎Apr 14, 2021 12:16 PM

JMWeaver: I now see the difference and agree.  Such differences do affect presentation and with it, opinions, especially among those who don't know what they are reading but are still making decisions. 

Thanks for the prompt.

MGM

jmweaver
3-Visitor
3-Visitor
‎Apr 14, 2021 12:24 PM
‎Apr 14, 2021 12:24 PM

Exactly! Some people are not as familiar with Mathcad and tables are nice to present the data to help the reviewer understand what the calculations are doing. I would like to use them as summary tables but the resolution is so poor I have a hard time recommending it. It looks like someone just took a screen snippet and pasted it into the sheet. Poor implementation...