This method is pretty laborious and also requires an additional license(s) to 3rd-party software items.įor sure Origin should produce the desired plots in PDF documents correctly.

Both programs export 'Parallel Plot' flawlessly. A much cheaper solution is 'pdfFactory' ( ). I recommend and use for PDF or EPS export the full Adobe Acrobat package. Origin's PDF exporter has some problems, especially with more complicated graphs like the example 'Parallel Plot'. and a report with Fineprint PDF printer set, selected items are written out. you can also consider to export graphs as EMF, open them with Adobe Illustrator and then save them as EPS/PDF. However, sometimes there is unexpected problem in exported EPS or PDF file.

I sent you email to further discuss the problems you met. I want to export a graph to a vector PDF, but experienced the following issues.ġ) Text export to PDF is incorrect since full-text search in the output PDF doesn't deliver the results.Ģ) If I open the output PDF in Adobe Acrobat, then select text and copyto Windows clipboard and paste it to a notepad I get 'e p a l W i d t h' instead of 'Sepal Width' (notice that the first letter is missing on copy to clipboard).įor example, try to export Parallel Plot graph from Learning Center and reproduce the listed issues.

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