Poor Text Quality on embedded Xls Excel Object in IDW- PDSU 2015

[gcross]

 Anyone know how to fix this text issue?

Text is great in the original excel file & pretty bad in the embedded xls object in my Inventor IDW as you can see in the attached screen shots). The kerning looks way too close. Font is just standard (MS) Arial in the Excel file.

Using Excel form MS Office 2010.

Any help will be appreciated.

Gary

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi gsross,

Not wanting to teach you how to suck egg's but have you tried;

highlight the excel cells, right click, copy.

In inventor, Tools, paste special, paste as link.

The screen graphics look "medium - ish" quality, but print crisp.

Hope this helps

Mark

Inventor 2014

[mgeurts]

Try to print it and see if it looks better.

[mcgyvr]

The screen display of Excel tables in IDW files has always been "low quality/fuzzy",etc.....

However its always looked just fine when printed/pdf,etc... 

[gcross]

Mark,

I did what you recomended & it looks good now.

Thanks.

Gary

[tony_berset]

The poor text quality of Excel array is still happening on the latest release of Inventor (currently 2022). Despite the "printing solution", is Autodesk looking for a resolution or future improvement ?

It would be great if an imported Excel object could look alike the original Excel array in drawing environement (same quality).

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Tony,

This is an OLE object snapshot issue. The inserted table is like an image taken within a fixed resolution and picture size. Depending on the number of columns and rows, the text quality does diminish to some degree (the bigger, the more).

It has been discussed repeatedly internally but so far we have not found a good solution yet. Let me work with the project team and see if there is a better solution.

Many thanks!

[sgodonVEAP9]

I know this is a little bit off topic, but does anyone knows how to have a macro to do: Tools, paste special, paste as link. ? thanks!!