Converting a .numbers file to an image?

I have a spreadsheet that I will be updating every so often that I want to present to a group of people on a message board as an image. Is there a way to convert a .numbers file to an image, or can I convert to an image once I convert the .numbers to pdf or .xls?

MacBook 13", Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Dec 31, 2008 12:01 PM

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Jan 1, 2009 6:24 AM in response to bstotter

If you don't need the entire spreadsheet but only a portion, you can use screenshots. OSX comes prebuilt with some great shortcuts that give you multiple ways of getting them, far more flexible than M$. Look at this website that has the shortcuts listed and explained:
http://guides.macrumors.com/TakingScreenshots_in_Mac_OSX

Example: I almost never use Preview to convert because I can just use CMD & Shift & 4 to get a cross-hair and create a perfect tiff of the area I drag the cross-hairs around, right on the desktop.

Jason

Jan 1, 2009 8:31 AM in response to jaxjason

Screen Grabs are very handy, as you say. They don't preserve resolution though. You will be limited to screen resolution, which for some applications may be enough, but if you ever plan to zoom or edit a screen grab, you will wish you had captured your Numbers Doc as PDF. Here's an example of a zoomed Screen Grab on the top and a cropped PDF Print on the bottom. The difference is obvious.

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Jerry

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