tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-12-02:678086 hey love, I'm an inconstant satellite hey love, I'm an inconstant satellite 2012-01-31T07:19:46Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2010-12-02:678086:488561 2012-01-31T07:19:46Z 2012-01-31T07:19:46Z public 0 Today 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 <em>Microsoft's default fonts</em>. If you change the font to something <em>reasonable</em>, like Helvetica, the problem is <em>solved</em>. WTF. <br /><br />Anyway, it's a pain to change all the fonts manually on each graph produced, so one would think that <a href="http://www.uwgb.edu/compserv/ehelp/macos/fontchanges_mac.htm">changing the default font in Excel Preferences</a> would help. No! Only the spreadsheet cells use that format. The graphs pay it no mind.<br /><br />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.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=jinian&ditemid=488561" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments