Graph Tool in Illustrator CS5

Is there a limit to the number of data fields a specific chart can handle. I am working on a historic chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that contains over 900 numbers to be charted, but Illustrator only seems to be plotting the first hundred or so. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
S.

Be more specific so someone can replicate the problem. I just pasted over 2500 rows copied from Excel into an AI graph.
JET

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Does anyone know whether there have been any improvements to the graphing tool in Illustrator CS6?
I had thought that perhaps Adobe would be adding a graphs function to Indesign, but there has been no word of it with the CS6 release. And nobody has mentioned graphs in their "new features" reviews of either InDesign nor Illustrator.
The graphing function in Illustrator really sucks - it's been the same since Illustrator 88. Have they totally abandoned those of us who have to create graphs again? Or have they improved it but it's just not cool enough for anyone to mention?

I do a lot of reports - sometimes a 100 page report will have 40 or 50 graphs in it. I have to create over a thousand graphs every year. I have tried all the other products I can find and none of them create files that are really usable in a workflow where everything else is done in Adobe Creative Suite. I need to option click on a linked image of a graph in Indesign, open up an Illustrator file, and update the graph with new data from an Excel file. And I need the graph to look good.
Currently, the Illustrator graphing tool does not support live updating of the data very well at all and has severe limitations. Your data cannot have commas or percent signs or dollar signs. You cannot have numbers as categories (years, for example, as a category label all have to be typed in quotes). The graph labels cannot even have commas in them (you have to enter them manually after you plot it.) The entry dialog for the data is really primitive and hard to work with. And every time you update the graph data and replot the bars or lines, the tick marks are scattered all over the page and you lose your commas in the axis labels. Adobe really ought to be ashamed and embarrassed by how poorly this tool works, and I cannot understand how they can create tools like a perspective grid (which is cool, but I haven't needed it yet) and totally ignore such a basic productivity tool as the graphing feature.
I'm all for the cool stuff too . . . but you don't need live paint or live trace to do graphs if you can actually just import the numbers and do it right. But my graphs need to be accurate and based on plotted numbers, not hand-drawn. And so I have to come up with complicated workarounds and every time I update a graph I have to do all this stuff over again that should just be a one-click update.
If anyone out there is looking for a good business opportunity, build a graphing plugin for Indesign or Illustrator - I'll be happy to test it!

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Copy graphs to Adobe Illustrator CS5

Hi there,
I am processing some graphs generated using a Genomics software in Adobe Illustrator CS5 (AI). However, if I directly copy and paste/transfer JMP graph to AI, it generates an error message displaying “Can’t paste the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects too large”. I then first copy graph to MS PowerPoint (PPT) and from there copy it to AI. In PPT also, if I copy graph in the JMP recommended way (i.e. as an emf or wmf) and then copy it to AI, it generates the same error message. So, I just paste in PPT as a normal copy and paste, and then copy and paste it to AI. In this manner the error message is not generated but the graph quality is reduced considerably. Could anyone please suggest some solution to this?
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I was having this problem in CC. The message I was getting when trying to paste a graph from Excel > Illustrator was "Can't paste the objects. The requested transformation would make some objects too large."
SOLUTION:
1. Copy the Excel graph.
2. Paste into INDESIGN
3. It will be pasted in as an image, but do not fret
4. Copy the image
5. Now paste into Illustrator, voila. Vector graphics and live text.
I don't how this works or why I even tried, but it does.

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LOL.
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Illustrator 5 * was released in 1993 with Graph Creation. That was pretty much the end of the road for those half baked features.
* The original version 5, theoretically between versions 4 and 6, not CS5 from 2010. It gets even more confusing if you want to talk platform release numbers. ;-)

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Click the "down arrow" symbol on the right (where it says ALL FORUMS) to open the drop down list and scroll

Illustrator CS5.1 on Mavericks Faint Grey Tools/Crosshair Cursor

I'm hoping some one is going to advise/help me on the 3rd time of asking about the tools pallete.
I am using Illustrator CS5.1 on a iMac, I am working on 10.9 Mavericks, and now the crosshair/cursor/ various tools have almost dissappeared to a /faint grey in tint, will I have to wait for a fix from Adobe or Apple or is there something in preferences I can click to solve issue?
I Have already reported this 'Bug' via Adobe website.
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Thank you for your reply.
I'm still having problems with the illustrator tools, I'm reluctant to do a clean install of Mavericks or Illustrator, but the other Creative suite applications tools have no problems, strange it is only Illustrator?
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Hello , I have installed adobe illustrator CS5 and when i open it..tool bar isnt working.. when i click at rectangle/pen tool the sub options on it dont appear though black sign comes.. am confused wat to do?? i have windows 8 as OS.. please help soonest.

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I have installed adobe illustrator CS5 and when i open it..tool bar isnt working.. when i click at rectangle/pen tool the sub options on it dont appear though black sign comes.. am confused wat to do?? i have windows 8 as OS.. please help soonest.....thankyou

charmi,
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
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http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

My illustrator cs5 eyedropper tool will not pick up any color! help!

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I "found" a solution on this site where you go into your eyedropper options and make sure your appearance boxes are checked, and they weren't so I did that, and now the eyedropper tool won't pick up any color at all.
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It's not live traced just vectored with the pencil tool!
I was trying to grab the individual pixel color from a jpeg, cmyk image to apply to the shapes drawn with the pencil tool.
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However, I appreciate your response anyways!

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