Aimee is the name of my laptop and hence shows in my shell prompt. My advice is to go read up on Terminal before trying this. If you’re not familiar with using Terminal and the basic UNIX shell commands, this next step might be confusing. Now you have an RTFD document next to your Pages documented, both called Untitled. I’ve organized the full procedure by the application you need to use at each step. (Maybe this is automatable with Apple Script?) In a nutshell, you paste into Pages, export to RTF, grab the PDF of the image and use Preview to convert it to PNG. It’s a little tedious, but it works every time. This problem of incomplete images when pasting occurs in at least the following applications (I’m running 10.7.1 on a MacBook Air):Īfter a lot of experimenting I came up with a reliable way of getting complete images of charts out of Numbers and into the graphic format I prefer (PNG). ![]() Same chart, missing title, axis label and legend. Not so good: lots of important stuff missing, and lots of wasted effort by me in making a nice chart. Here’s how the same exact chart looked when I did the obvious copy/paste thing to get it out of Numbers. See the nice title, how the axes are properly labeled, and the two series of data are described in the legend? These kinds of things matter to me, and I make an effort to get them right.Ĭomplete chart showing title, axis labels, and legend. ![]() The chart below is something I used recently in a post on Great Not Big. Saving that image lets you select PNG, and voila, something good enough for your blog post. However, if you Control-Click on the chart, launch Preview, and Select New from Clipboard, you get a nice PDF of the chart. It’s not even adequate for screen display at nominal size on a monitor. Numbers (4.1 on OS X 10.12.6) now lets you easily copy a chart, including titles and legends, but what it puts in the paste buffer is a strangely low resolution image. Unfortunately, and unforgivably, the copy buffer would only contain a portion of my chart: the title would be missing, the legend would be missing or clipped, even the titles on the axes would be missing. After creating a chart in Numbers, I copy and paste it to the tool I’m using to create my document or blog post. There is one impossible-to-live-with-problem that Numbers has which almost made me return to Excel. ![]() Numbers has some foibles, but I find it produces much more attractive charts and graphs than Excel, and Excel can be pretty capricious as well in this area. I’ll put these charts into blog posts, emails, documents and diagrams when I need data to get my point across. I generally like using Numbers on my Mac to create charts.
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