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  1. Excel graph conversation doesn't work on a Mac anymore

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    1 comment  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » Other...  ·  Admin →
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    Will Suckow commented  · 

    Please fix Illustrator to properly import the text on charts copied from Excel and pasted into Illustrator. InDesign has no trouble with the text, please fix Illustrator to do the same.

    I regularly have to clean up and standardize charts in Illustrator for use in our research journal and production manuals. The ability to copy charts from our author's Excel spreadsheets and paste them directly into Illustrator with the text intact is essential to my work and would help speed production.

    As Sten mentioned, this used to work long ago, but it has been many years since the text has imported cleanly. There is a work around I've documented below that requires a couple extra steps.

    Currently, this is what happens:

    Cut a chart from Excel and paste into Illustrator = clean vector art, garbled text

    My workaround:

    Step 1: Cut a chart from Excel and paste into InDesign.
    Step 2: Cut the chart from InDesign and paste into Illustrator.
    Results: In addition to clean vector art, the text remains readable and editable.

    Attached is a screen shot from Illustrator that shows the results from a standard cut-and-paste and from the workaround.

    Thanks for your help!

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  2. Illustrator does not embed a color profile when exporting artwork to PNG format

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    35 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Bugs » File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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    Will Suckow commented  · 

    I'm voting for what I feel is the more import part of this idea, the conversion of CMYK to SRGB. The default screen profile for the web and Microsoft Office is SRGB. At the very least, there should be a checkbox to export to SRGB. And a checkbox to include a profile.

    The old Save for web (legacy) export did this automatically. It also had the option to embed a profile.

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