Publisher 2013 - Print and PDF Quality issue for embedded Excel.

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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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Anonymous

2013-01-09T18:27:11+00:00

The text of an embedded Excel spreadsheet in Publisher 2013 is also fuzzy on screen or printed as the original document. Curiously a Publisher document made in 2013 while fuzzy in 2013, looks, prints and converts to a PDF with crisp sharp text when opened in Publisher 2007 or 2010. It seems that Publisher 2013 has a serious fault.

Exactly as Skarlock says.
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Anonymous

2013-01-10T14:28:53+00:00

Hello, I tried to insert the Excel object in Word and PDF is of high quality, the problem occurs only in Publisher.

Publisher has the problem.

Thanks for the feedback.

What Reader are you using?

Can you select text in the Pub 2010 vs. Pub 2013 PDF file?

Can you select text in the PDF that is produced with Word 2013?

Is there a difference in file size of the PDFs?

What operating system are you using?

What I am attempting to do is to confirm that the Excel object/text is 'flattened' into a picture by Pub 2013.

Thanks for your help.

DavidF

I use Acrobat as PDF Reader.

I can't select text in Publisher 2013 PDF file, I can select text in Publisher 2010 and Word 2013 PDF files,

Publisher 2010 PDF file is 3,05MB, Publisher 2013 PDF file is 2,77 MB.

I use Windows 8 Pro 64 bit and Office 2013 64 bit.

OK, thanks for the details.

DavidF
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Anonymous

2013-01-10T14:29:53+00:00

The text of an embedded Excel spreadsheet in Publisher 2013 is also fuzzy on screen or printed as the original document. Curiously a Publisher document made in 2013 while fuzzy in 2013, looks, prints and converts to a PDF with crisp sharp text when opened in Publisher 2007 or 2010. It seems that Publisher 2013 has a serious fault.

OK thanks for the additional information.

DavidF
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Anonymous

2013-01-22T16:04:03+00:00

News from Microsoft?

Thanks.
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Anonymous

2013-01-24T14:16:29+00:00

News from Microsoft?

Thanks.

No, sorry...no news. I will report back when or if I get any news.

By the way, when I was testing this issue I tried the free pdf tool from www.primopdf.com to create the pdf from Pub 2013 and the excel file was not flattened. The quality was equal to the Office 2010 pdf tool. For the short term you could switch to primopdf. I actually use it more than the Office pdf tool as it works with any program. I also like that it allows me to append pages to existing pdf files. I know, this doesn't fix the problem, but at least it is a workaround to use until MS fixes the Publisher PDF tool.

DavidF
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