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| Patrique |
Posted - 06/06/2008 : 05:55:01 AM
Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 6.5 and 7.5 Pro
Operating System: Win XP
Hello.
I currently have to work with 2 different Versions of Origin but experience the same problems with both:
1) I create a graph.
2) I need to specify x and y axis ranges because not all data needs to be plotted.
3) Now clipping is deactivated (values of the underlying data are plotted beyond the axis limits), so I activate data clipping in the following way: a) selection of the layer --> 'Format'-->'Layer Properties'-->'Display'-->'Clip data to frame'
4) Now my graph is clipped to the axis limits
5) Now I want to export this graph to eps or pdf (with acrobat pdf writer) to later do some modifications in Adobe Illustrator. When viewing this file with Acrobat it all seems to be fine, but.....
6) After importing the eps or pdf to Illustrator I realize that the graph still extends beyond the axis limits. The data values exceeding the axis-limits are just invisible/transparent but they are still there.
See this image (copied from Illustrator) illustrating what I mean:
--->This is really annoying because:
a) after saving the eps file in Illustrator for import into latex a new boundary box is created that embeds the invisble data points. Thus, the graph appears very small in the resulting latex-output.
b) Working with the file in Illustrator is hard and annoying because the invisble data points are spreaded everywhere over the working area if noisy data was plotted.
Is there any workaround to force 'real clipping' in Origin? I know that I could set a data range but this only affects the y-axis and not the x axis. Additionaly, this is fairly cumbersomely (Searching for the exakt range bins in the data; setting the range for each graph and modifying the range after a change of the axis limits)
I appreciate any help because this problem is really annoying.
Regards,
Patric.
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| Kat |
Posted - 06/20/2008 : 10:37:09 AM
Hi,
if you print your Graph with PDFCreator (http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator) as an PDF or EPS instead of exporting it, your problem should not appear. Don`t ask me why, but I experienced that it works this way :-)
Greetings,
Katharina |
| larry_lan |
Posted - 06/17/2008 : 10:15:52 AM
Hi Martin:
I can reproduce that follows your steps now. Looks like the problem happends when opening the file in AI. Did you see the same problem when opening EPS in GSview? Or include the graphs in LaTaX file?
Thanks
Larry
OriginLab Technical Services |
| martin12 |
Posted - 06/13/2008 : 08:43:17 AM
I have exactly the same problem as Patrique, working with Origin 7 SR4 on Windows XP. I also tried printing eps with a postscript printer as was suggested in another thread, but it did not work either (and caused additional problems with the fonts).
The effect can be reproduced very easily: make a new worksheet with a few points (say x=1,2,3, y=0,5,10), then make a line plot from this, scale the y-axis to range from 4 to 6, export to eps or ai format, and open with illustrator. If you exported to ai, the full extent of the line outside the frame is visible. If you exported to eps, only the part within the frame is visible. But if you mark the line, you will see that still the whole line is there, which may cause problems when you later export from illustrator. |
| larry_lan |
Posted - 06/10/2008 : 02:57:55 AM
Hi:
I can't reproduce it. Could you please send your opj to tech@originlab.com, and describe your output settings in detail?
Thanks
Larry
OriginLab Technical Services |
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