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emk
Finland
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 Posted - 06/06/2006 : 07:33:25 AM
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Origin Version 7.5. 7.0
Operating System: XP SP2
Hi all,
When an object is added to an Origin layer as an enhanced windows metafile object (EMF, e.g. with cut'n'paste from another app), the emf data will not show if Origin page is copied and pasted to e.g. Word. The file linked below demonstrates this, try copying the page (Ctrl+J) and pasting to an app.
http://cc.oulu.fi/~emk/opj/EMFexample.ogg
Regards,
Eero
Edited by - emk on 06/06/2006 08:48:10 AM |
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Deanna
China
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Posted - 06/06/2006 : 9:55:39 PM
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Hi, Eero.
I do not know why this happens. However, if you export the page and insert it into MicroSoft Word, both the emf object and the plot will be shown. Therefore, I suggest that you use exporting instead of copying and pasting for the moment.
We will try to find out what is wrong and provide a better solution.
Deanna
OriginLab GZ Office |
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emk
Finland
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 02:53:56 AM
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Hi Deanna,
Thanks for your answer. I did some experimenting with export formats, and it seems that only bitmap exports work with this data (WMF, EMF, CGM, and PDF fail, while Photoshop and TIF work). I guess there is an issue with the metafile in a metafile, while in bitmap exports the metafile data is flattened.
Regards,
Eero Kouvalainen
eero.kouvalainen "commercial at" oulu.fi
Edited by - emk on 06/07/2006 04:10:11 AM |
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zachary_origin
China
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Posted - 06/07/2006 : 10:31:53 AM
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Hi Eero,
I am not sure why you want to copy the page with the emf object together. If you copy the emf object and the graph seperately to Word, it will work well.
Zachary
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emk
Finland
28 Posts |
Posted - 06/07/2006 : 3:12:00 PM
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Hi,
We found this issue when we were producing a compund figure with Origin plots and photos for an article. Origin has much more control over object placement than MS Word, so we like to use itfor making the final adjustments. The compund figure can be printed from Origin, but of course one should be able to copy it to other applications as well.
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Eero
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zachary_origin
China
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 01:34:25 AM
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Hi Eero,
I think it is indeed a bug in Origin. However, maybe this issue is something caused by XP os, for similar problem was found for Adobe Illustrator. ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840997/en-us ). Yet we are not sure about this now. We will let our developers take detailed test and fix the bug.
It seems that there is no better solution now and you have to insert the two graphs seperately to Word or export the two graphs as bitmap from Origin.
It is greatly appreciated that you post the issue here and we regret for the inconvenience.
Zachary
OriginLab GZ Office.
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easwar
USA
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Posted - 06/08/2006 : 09:17:13 AM
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Hi Eero,
Here is one possible workaround:
Rather than copy-pasting the image from your other application, save the image as say a TIFF or JPEG file. Then in Origin with the graph active, use the menu item Import->Image to bring in the saved image. Then if you copy-paste the Origin graph as EMF to Word it works. This should work fine as long as you don't have to scale the copy-pasted image in Word too much?
Easwar
OriginLab
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EMF will not show when copied