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Excel distorts pictures

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by Member 35417609

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Would love a solution to this, when a logo image is inserted to a spreadsheet the picture looks fine, but in print view and when printed the picture is distorted i.e. wider or shorter, not it's proper size. Aspect ratio has not been adjusted..

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by robo_dev

Excel simply cannot display/print any raster-based graphics properly. Any vector-based graphics do not have this issue.

This has always been an excel problem...I think it's really a Windows problem with the display/printing subsystem, but I digress...

The short answer is to convert your raster image to a vector image, and all should render properly.

Experiment by pasting a vector graphic into your page to ensure that is the solution before investing too much time on the conversion.

I believe most drawing programs have this conversion capability (Paintshop Pro, Photoshop), there are hundreds of free utils to do that, or even some sites convert files online.

http://vectormagic.com/home

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