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When I print or export to a PDF, the embedded Excel documents in my Publisher 2013 document do not have crisp, clear text. However exactly the same document under Office 2010 they look and print fine. I have an example of a PDF created from the same Publisher document, one in 2010 (on the left), one in 2013 (on the right) which I have uploaded that clearly demonstrate the issue. Is this a known bug, or a font issue with Office 2013? I work at a University where we have an enterprise licence for Office 2013 so are only just considering to roll it out to staff currently, but if this is an issue we will have to wait for a fix.
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Hi DavidF -
I just upgraded to Office 2013 and unfortunately have encountered the same issues with embedded excel cells - at least I found this forum. Are there any updates on this issue?
Thanks for your help.
Unfortunately Microsoft is ignoring the problem.
Hi DavidF -
I just upgraded to Office 2013 and unfortunately have encountered the same issues with embedded excel cells - at least I found this forum. Are there any updates on this issue?
Thanks for your help.
This sounds like a variant of a problem I am having with Publisher where monochrome/line graphics are not being converted to PDF correctly - they are *very* fuzzy. I notice that the option to specify downsampling of these that was there in Publisher 2010 is no longer shown in Publisher 2013.
I would very much like to downgrade my Office 2013 back to Office 2010. Does anyone know if Microsoft allows that?
It's really absurd that Microsoft does nothing to solve all the problems of Publisher, six months and no news!!!
Hi Skarlock,
Thanks for the update. Other testing on Excel has been ok for us so far, and the stability of Power Pivots seems to be much better, so we are pushing ahead with further testing. The external link interface in Word seems to have been improved dramatically, so migrating to Word as a replacement for Publisher may not be such a bad option. If you update the layout settings on the linked objects so that they don't move with the text, word behaves pretty much like Publisher from a layout perspective, and it's not affected by the PDF quality issue.
I have raised a ticket with MS about the Publisher PDF output quality issue so they are aware more people are being hit by this.
Regards,
Graeme
A bunch of good information on this thread. Hard to believe I am still having this issue in May 2013, when this has been around since December. I also have 2010 installed alongside 2013. Excel 2013 is the best version since 2003. Simply outstanding. How is Publisher so bad?
