office365 excel, blurry images when exporting to PDF

Hi Scott,

I’m Jung one of the Independent Advisor and I’d be happy to help you out with your question.

The printing quality depends on several factors. One factor is the standard quality of the document itself. In newer Excel Versions, the default quality can be set to high in the options.

File-->Options-->Advanced

The relevant options are under the sections Image Size and Quality as well as Printing. For best results, the default resolution has to be set to High Fidelity.

The second factor that can decrease the image quality is a PDF printer with a low quality. With the standard Microsoft print to PDF printer, the quality can be set inside the print dialog under the Page Setup options.

The third factor is a wrongly scaled image. To avoid multiple conversion steps, I scale my images according to the print resolution. Although I don't fully understand the inner workings of the print to pdf function, this three things help me to get a decent image quality when the quality of the input images is good enough.

If the issue only occur with the PDF file and after you exported it from the Office Programs its possible that the problem is within the PDF program. You may try to compress the size or pictures to have a better resolution.

I hope this information helps. If you have any questions, please let me know and I’ll be glad to assist you further.

Best regards,
Jung

Hi Norman,

You can't find what Jung is referring to because their reply is simply not correct for Excel for Mac.

There are no differences regarding saving as PDF for subscription/non-subscription license types. All license types are treated the same for saving as PDF.

Microsoft is currently testing a different approach to saving as PDF in Excel for Mac. In the beta channel 16.64 build there are now two options: best for printing and best for electronic distribution. I do not know if or when these will reach the monthly current channel builds of Excel.

Hello Yung,

You inadvertently answered a question about Excel for Mac with an answer that applies only to Excel for Windows. Please correct your reply or remove it.

Thanks.

Hi Scott,

How does one export a high-res pdf, with hi-res images from Offie365/Excel

I can't find any solution for the Office365 version, but there are work arounds for the OS based Excel that do no apply to Office365

See the response of Dov Isaacs here.

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Regards,

Norman