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    excel does not print patterns

    Hi folks,
    after making up a sketch with colors and patterns within cells,
    I find out that Excel (2016, XLSM) does not want to print the patterns
    any experience in solving this problem ?
    cheers
    jcs

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    Are you sure it is excel, and not the printer?

    What does it look like if you Print Preview?
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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    1. Click the worksheet for which you want to change the print resolution.
    2. On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, click the Dialog Box Launcher Imagenext to Page Setup.
    3. On the Page tab, in the Print quality box, change the resolution.
    Hope it helps.

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    well,

    I did not find an imagenext in the page setup group,
    and I tried 3 different PDf printers, and 2 real one's
    the cell-patterned part of the page just disappears when printing,
    the only way to salvage it seems to be copy-paste from Excel into the PDF Editor, into an empty page

    hmmm

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    Page Layout > Page Setup, Page tab, Print Quality
    Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    found that now, put it to 3600 dpi, no change for any better,
    I guess there is some darker reason to that phenomenon ...

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    You have Acrobat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shg View Post
    You have Acrobat?
    Foxit phantom, and using excel PDF vba script as well

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    Re: excel does not print patterns

    I don't have Excel 2016 to test, but find Acrobat very reliable. Do your drivers work better or differently in earlier versions of Excel?

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