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Why am I losing quality when exporting to PDF from Numbers?

Hi guys, so I need to export a fairly large table I have to PDF so that I can get it into the report. It looks beautiful in Numbers, and then when I go to print, size it the way I want it, save as PDF, I get a crappy looking table....Lines have just randomly disappeared or faded. What is going on and how do I fix this?! It looks great in Numbers, I don't understand why it should look any different when I print to PDF.... Here is a screen shot inside Numbers, notice the lines look perfect....then a screen shot after exporting in Preview, notice how some of the lines are totally gone. You'll see the rows for "depth" have a dotted line to dived them....in preview the dotted line just disappears in one spot, but not in another. It's totally random and I've no idea how to fix it....



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Posted on Mar 6, 2015 7:52 AM

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May 17, 2015 1:55 AM in response to Yellowbox

Hi Yellowbox, Hi randiceleste,


I have exactly the same problem.

It doesn't seem to depend on the >>pt<< as some lines with the same pt show and others don't.

It must be a rendering problem for if I export the table from PDF to JPEG the lines are equally visible at different zoomings...


Both exporting from Numbers to PDF and the File>Print>Save as PDF have the same result.

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MacBook Pro, Late 2011 running 10.10.3 and latest Numbers Update: V 3.5.3


thanks,


Rubberneck

Why am I losing quality when exporting to PDF from Numbers?

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