smart chart not exporting in PDF

[Thatch]

I appreciate the information.... I don't appreciate the hoops that have to be jumped through to use this component though (obviously on Xara's part, not yours).

So, how am I supposed to know that a graph is a HTML widget and not whatever the alternative to that is? There seems to be no designation within the gallery of charts as to what the underlying tech is for the particular object.

[mwenz]

Sorry. Dunno how to tell for many things in the content catalog. But I also don't use the content much--only a couple times since version 6 actually.

For charting, I generally use Excel, sometimes PowerPoint, and export as a PDF then bring that in. With a saved Excell/PP file, if and when it needs updated (and therefore XDP), it only takes a couple minutes. While it would be nice to have a "real" charting component in XDP, it likely isn't going to happen as Xara's focus of recent years seems more web-oriented than print design. It is like a real tables component that would benefit both print and web work. The table widget in XDP pretty much sucks.

I wish I had better news or a better work-around I could share.

Mike

[Thatch]

That is a shame. One of my main interests in upgrading was the addition of graphs. I don't normally use any of the premade things, but as I do a lot of graph work (mostly in an iPython noteboot with various graphing libraries) it is often times a pain to pull out a more capable tool just to do a simple weekly report. The idea of having the components in Xara so I could just bang through the report, have something nice to look at that exports directly into PDF was a pretty big bonus. Ah well, I'll suffer through on this particular project and then go back to my normal multi tool approach.

Thanks again,

Joe

[mwenz]

Hi Joe.

There are a few graphs that are not web widgets. Look in the Presentation section...I think that's where I saw them. I am away from the computer right now so cannot check for certain.

Mike

[Acorn]

The hoops i jumped through were slightly simpler.
I kept the document as a Print one but simply created a blank MouseOver layer.
This is enough to tell Xara to put the right code components in place for the graph to render.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

Sneaky

[mwenz]

But does it export at a dpi higher than 96? If not, it's useless for print.