Anti aliasing fonts in titles and axes?

[diehardii]

Hi, I'm working with Excel 2007, and I am pretty happy with the antialiased
lines in the charts. However, the text for the axes and the axis titles is
not anti aliased. I must be missing something, because i can't believe they
wouldn't include this after antialiasing the charts. I'm looking at them in
Excel, and pasting them as EMFs to a word document, and the fonts are not
antialiased in either. So, does anyone know how to turn this on? I'm so close
to being able to make scientific quality charts in Excel. Thanks for any help.

 

[Del Cotter]

Hi, I'm working with Excel 2007, and I am pretty happy with the antialiased
lines in the charts. However, the text for the axes and the axis titles is
not anti aliased. I must be missing something, because i can't believe they
wouldn't include this after antialiasing the charts. I'm looking at them in
Excel, and pasting them as EMFs to a word document, and the fonts are not
antialiased in either. So, does anyone know how to turn this on? I'm so close
to being able to make scientific quality charts in Excel.

What fonts are you using at the moment?

 

[diehardii]

I'm currently using Garamond. Thanks for any help.

 

[Jon Peltier]

I think if you set up ClearType in Windows, you'll get your antialiased
text. I know ClearType antialiases text in Excel 2003 charts. I hated the
fuzzy text, so I turned off ClearType.

I also hate the antialiased lines in Excel 2007 charts. Try copying the
chart as a picture and pasting it for use in another application. It is
absolutely ugly, an abomination of visual display. The fuzzy text caused by
ClearType was bad enough, but the chart elements are badly distorted, and
you can't turn it off.

Just my opinion, of course.

- Jon

 

[Del Cotter]

I think if you set up ClearType in Windows, you'll get your antialiased
text. I know ClearType antialiases text in Excel 2003 charts. I hated the
fuzzy text, so I turned off ClearType.

I also hate the antialiased lines in Excel 2007 charts. Try copying the
chart as a picture and pasting it for use in another application. It is
absolutely ugly, an abomination of visual display. The fuzzy text caused by
ClearType was bad enough, but the chart elements are badly distorted, and
you can't turn it off.

I'm sorry to hear the lines look bad. I was looking forward to
anti-aliased symbols, as it's one of the most ugly things about the line
and scatter charts I try to create in pre-2007 XL. Also the lack of
anti-aliasing in Autoshapes, leading to ugliness like this:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/del_c/infographics/rockstar.png

I tried various techniques to maximise the size and thus the resolution
of an Excel chart, to avoid the mess with the little human figures, and
that was the best I managed.

(PS if I was doing that chart today, it would be Tornado, not Stacked
Bar)

 

[Jon Peltier]

I'm sorry to hear the lines look bad. I was looking forward to
anti-aliased symbols, as it's one of the most ugly things about the line
and scatter charts I try to create in pre-2007 XL. Also the lack of
anti-aliasing in Autoshapes, leading to ugliness like this:

http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r264/del_c/infographics/rockstar.png

I tried various techniques to maximise the size and thus the resolution of
an Excel chart, to avoid the mess with the little human figures, and that
was the best I managed.

(PS if I was doing that chart today, it would be Tornado, not Stacked Bar)

I would make a dot plot with two series. Since the tornado series go in
opposite directions, it's hard to compare them.

- Jon