PDF print with linked Excel error

Please see attached.  This problem only exists with this excel file and only when rasterize is turned off in the plot dialog.  It is not plotcfg specific.  The microstation plot preview looks correct.... the PDF is messed up.  Turning on rasterize fixes the issue.  None of my other sheets with linked excel files behaves this way.  I would prefer to not turn on rasterize for this one file in our project.

Has anyone experienced this?

  • 1.  How are you  making your pdf? is it the native ustn pdf.plt?

    2.  What resolution are you using?

    3.  Have you tried  using printer.plt and  say a  windows driver like pdf 995 or AdobeAcrobatWriter?

    4.  Does this excel file have to be  created to pdf from ustn  can't you create pdf from inside excel?

    5.  Why not Upload a  copy of this dgn with the excel embeded and we'll see if we all get the same results.

    It would seem you really have answered your own question in when you say its only this excel file that has a problem

    So logically it must be the  excel formating and  how ustn see's it... try exporting the  excel to csv then open a  new session in excel and  import the  csv and redo the  table how you want it by hand  dont copy paste from the old excel and try  using this new excel file in ustn  does it still behave badly in pdf? if not then its something fishy with the original excel formating.

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