stupidly incompatible
Jan. 30th, 2012 11:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianToday I once again had the annoying problem where graphs from Excel 2011 cannot be pasted into Illustrator CS4 without turning all text into strings of non-letter symbols. My wish to wallow in the misery of others like myself led me to discover, deep in a comment thread on the Adobe site, the fact that the problem is actually Microsoft's default fonts. If you change the font to something reasonable, like Helvetica, the problem is solved. WTF.
Anyway, it's a pain to change all the fonts manually on each graph produced, so one would think that changing the default font in Excel Preferences would help. No! Only the spreadsheet cells use that format. The graphs pay it no mind.
Apparently what you have to do is make a new "theme" (I called mine HELVETICA DAMMIT) and manually select it in each file. And I thought I hated Office 2011 before.
Anyway, it's a pain to change all the fonts manually on each graph produced, so one would think that changing the default font in Excel Preferences would help. No! Only the spreadsheet cells use that format. The graphs pay it no mind.
Apparently what you have to do is make a new "theme" (I called mine HELVETICA DAMMIT) and manually select it in each file. And I thought I hated Office 2011 before.
