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tmandviw
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 Posted - 07/16/2006 : 4:40:58 PM
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Origin Version (Select Help-->About Origin): 7.5
Operating System: Windows XP
Hi, I'm trying to create a plot (.tiff file) having a fixed width and height, using OriginLab. After plotting the image, I first set the width and height (eg. 3.5" x 2.46") in the Layer Area group on the Size/Speed tab of the layer's Plot Details dialog box. Then using the Tools/Options/Page Tab, I set the Ratio to 100 and select the Advanced and Keep Size radio buttons. Then I export the plot as a .tiff file with 600 DPI resolution. When I insert the plot in MS Word using Insert picture, the size of my plot is not the one I fixed earlier in the Size/Speed tab of OriginLab.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks
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easwar
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 6:22:35 PM
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Hi Tasneem,
Word may be resizing the picture? Double-click on the picture to bring up the Word dialog on picture properties and check the picture size control - is it set to 100% or something different?
Easwar
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easwar
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Posted - 07/16/2006 : 10:35:33 PM
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Hi Tasneem,
Also check the setting of the Margin Control drop-down on Tools->Options->Page. The default setting is Border which would export not the whole page, but a subset of the page that contains all objects plus some border. You should change that setting to Page and try.
Easwar
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tmandviw
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Posted - 07/17/2006 : 11:37:46 AM
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Thanks for your reply.
After I changed the Margin control on Page tab to Page and all other settings as earlier (Ratio = 100, Advanced and Keep Size selected), I saved the vector plot as .tiff (I set the width to 7" and height to 5.64" in the Size/Speed tab) and inserted to MS Word. The size from the Format Picture dialog box in Word was width = 5.99" and height = 4.59", with the scale of 56%. But now when I make the scale to a 100%, the width becomes 10.69" and height becomes 8.2".
I would appreciate any thoughts on this issue of not retaining the size of inserted picture to what I set in the OriginLab Size/Speed tab.
Regards
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easwar
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Posted - 07/17/2006 : 12:17:17 PM
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Hi Tasneem,
You mentioned changing the size in Size/Speed tab. Note that this tab is at layer level and not at Page level. So what you basically did was to resize the layer within the page, and not change the page size at all. And what gets exported is not just the layer, but the entire page.
Click on the Graph level, top most level, in the left panel tree in Plot Details and then click on the Print/Dimensions tab on the right. Then change the numbers there to change the Page size. And then export with your current settings.
Easwar
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tmandviw
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Posted - 07/18/2006 : 2:22:24 PM
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Yes, that did fix the problem. Thanks.
My legend is too big to drag in the plot area, so when I resize it the way you suggested, the legend is lost when I import the figure in Word.
What's the fix for this?
Thanks a bunch!
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easwar
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Posted - 07/18/2006 : 2:44:07 PM
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Hi Tasneem,
You can single-click on the legend in the Origin graph and then resize that to fit inside of your new page area and then export.
I am not sure what the end goal is and why you are using TIFF export for example. If you just want a graph image of a particular size in Word, you could simply do no change to the page size in Origin, just do Edit->Copy Page, and then do an Edit->Paste Special in Word and then simply resize the image in Word to your desired dimension? That places an EMF object which is a vector object and would scale better than raster exported images.
Perhaps you should give a call to tech support and talk to one of our engineers and they can tell you what is the best approach once you give them more details?
Easwar
OriginLab
P.S. When you paste into Word you can either Paste or Paste Special and in both cases, you can right-click on the object in Word and select Format Object or Format Picture (depending on how you pasted) and set the size of the object using the controls in the Size tab of the Word dialog. Benefit of doing Paste instead of Paste Special is that you can double-click later to launch Origin to further edit the graph
Edited by - easwar on 07/18/2006 2:56:47 PM |
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Resizing plots