Numbers export to PDF looks horrible

Was just editing a 1 page Mac OS X Numbers file on the iPad and wanted to share a PDF with a colleague. From the iPad, the page and graphs/charts now get split into many pages that look just horrible and are completely useless - simple graphs lit across multiple PDF pages. Is there anyway to have the PDF format export from iOS Numbers match the 1 page output from Mac OS X numbers? It would be a real shame if this would not be possible, as it renders Numbers on the iPad useless for sharing nice looking charts etc with colleagues.

Looks like you can control some of what it looks like in the Print area.
Can change Portrait/Landscape.
Change the scale.
Use "Auto Fit", which seems to work okay.
Doesn't seem to have the option to fit everything on one big page (like Mac version, which I think is what you are asking for), but you can scale the charts down to a regular size page(s) and at least see how it will be broken up across pages. Maybe I don't have the right kind of printer settings and it works for some people on iPad?
At any rate, then return to email spreadsheet as PDF. Maybe you already know this and it isn't exactly what you want, but just the same I hope it helps some.

Similar Messages

Numbers | Export to PDF | Cannot Print Exported PDF

I am having a heck of a time with being able to print PDFs exported out of Numbers. I have tried both the File>Export command and I have printed to PDF and printed to Adobe PDF. Once I open the exported / printed PDF files in Acrobat Reader and try to print them, Reader freezes after 30 seconds of ramping up its memory usage in excess of 300MB. The PDFs are less than a MB in size. I have been able to successfully print the exported / printed PDF files using Preview on a Mac, but the reason I need to be able to convert my spreadsheets to PDF is so that a colleague in another state can print them from a PC. Anyone run into this issue? Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Jared
You wrote:
Is there a way to automate it such that it doesn't repeat the last row or do I just need to manually delete the formula out of all of the cells in the rows after the last?
There sure is. I was in a rush and made a mistake in my formula. I've posted solutions to this problem at least a half a dozen times here in the past and for some reason I didn't recall the bit that you are having trouble with. It came to me overnight that I had led you astray.
Here's a solution for the expression in the reduced table that I've used before and I'm pretty sure you will have success with:
=IF(ROW()<(MAX(Data :: E)+1), INDEX(Data, MATCH(ROW(), Data :: $E), COLUMN()), "")
Here's how it works...
The auxiliary column in the table Data reports the count of important rows. The reduced table searches for the count number in the Data table matching the row number in the reduced table. The Index function then transfers the data for the matching row. The problem in my posted solution was with the condition that limits the copying of rows to the reduced table.
Rather than checking the total number of rows in the data table, with an offset, I should have just checked to see how many "'important" rows there are by looking at the max count. The "+1" offset in the test is to account for the Header Row.
Regards,
Jerry

Creating Invoices with Numbers exporting as PDF

I'm using numbers to create my invoices.
Using sheets/tables to create the Customer information section 2 columns and a few rows for their Name, Address, Email, Etc
Then I use the invoice table chart to put their products and a service charge on there as well.
It works out perfectly...however I just noticed that when I export as PDF to email my customers their invoice/receipt the PDF lines are completely editable.
Giving me a very uneasy feeling should a customer want to make adjustments and cause a concern over something that they changed on the invoice.
So it is possible to lock those fields when exporting as a PDF or is it just by default that way?
Thanks!

Are you sure in basic PDF readers your customers can edit your content? Actually I think you can modify most any document. If your customers are really modifying the invoices you send to them I would say that makes your relationship with them very difficult.
Acrobat Pro X does allow editing.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatpro.html
You can embed and image which is still modifiable but more difficult to make it look good.
I don't think there is a better way to emit a pdf than what you are doing. FYI you can also use the menu item "File > Print", then select "Save as PDF…":

Help with exporting. Video looks horrible after export, but great when in premiere pro

Hey guys, looking for some advice on exporting.
When I finish a video, the color and everything looks great while in premiere pro, but after exporting it, the color ends up looking dull and the whole video looks blurry. I'm filming with a canon vixia hf200 at 60i. It imports as a AVCHD file, I deinterlace it, and then export at the Vimeo HD settings. What can be causing the video to look horrible after exporting? What settings should I be exporting under? Any help would be appreciated!

It looks like you're coming up against some of the colorspace handling issues that the Premiere pipeline has.
Since your source is 60i AVCHD it's HD and thus rec709 colorspace. If it gets encoded with the standard rec601 colorspace (SD sizes are this) then all the colors get crushed. Look for a "709" and "601" radio button in your export settings. If it's not there you're out of luck.
The "blurry" is probably a poor quality de-interlacer. If Vimeo permits interlaced vs progressive do that instead. it's always cleaner to stay in the same video format all the way through.
TECHNICAL ASIDE:
rec709 is a triangle of possible colors that can be expressed by mixing of ratios of 3 emitters (the R G B corners of the triangle). (they are the RGB phosphors of a CRT and now LCD pixel elements)
rec709 is a bigger triangle than rec601 so it's capable of more colors. but if you accidently map that triangle's corners to the coordinates of rec601 it gets crushed.
In photography the "sRGB" uses the rec709 triangle. A bigger triangle that that is "Adobe RGB". So if you work in Adobe RGB and export to sRGB without conversion the colors get crushed because sRGB in inside the triangle of "Adobe RGB".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srgb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._709
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/CIExy1931_sRGB.svg

Export in pdf: looks awful in Acrobat Reader

Hello
I wanna do a simple 1024*768 pdf (from sources i use for iPad app made in Digital Publishing Suite)
WHen iI export in .pdf, there's no way (well, for me, so far) to get the pdf have the right size/dpi ratio than in my original innn document
my document is made for web,, my images as well (all 1024*768, full page)
when i open the pdf (i tried all possibilites in choices i'm given) it looks awful
the acrobat reader says it's 100%, but 100% of what ?
certainly not the100% from my original documlent, it opens way much bigger.
I't only looks good when it's on 66,7% on acrobat reader
Anyone got a clue ?
thanx !

Peter Spier wrote:
You've set up at 1024 x 768 px doc size? Your PDF should also then have a 1024 x 768 size (it might read 14.22 x 10.66 inches in Acrobat since as far as ID is concerned, pixels = points). Have you scaled the images in ID?
well, when I export from indesign to pdf , i got the choice between "interactive" or "print", I chose interactive, and there's no way to set up anything else appart from pages (all/specify) etc.etc.

Numbers - export to pdf

My spreadsheets have several sheets all of which get exported to a single PDF file using 'Open in another application'.
I want to export only one sheet as I can when printing.
What am I missing or how should I do this?

My spreadsheets have several sheets all of which get exported to a single PDF file using 'Open in another application'.
I want to export only one sheet as I can when printing.
Hi Martyn,
I sympathize with your confusion about the distinction people make between Numbers on various platforms. That's rapidly becoming moot as the apps converge and more users are looking for ways to make them work together.
On the iPad it's all sheets or nothing. So the workaround is as follows. I realized after I wrote it that it is a step-by-step elaboration of Jerry's suggestion, and is almost identical to what one would do on the Mac. So Jerry doesn't even need an iPad to give sound advice.
In the Spreadsheets view where you see all your Numbers documents, tap Edit upper right, tap the document you want to export a sheet from, and tap the + icon upper left to create a duplicate of the document which will have the same name, with "copy" appended to the end.
Open the duplicate document, tap once on the tab of a sheet you don't want, tap Delete. Repeat for the other sheets you don't want to export.
Then Share>Open in Another App>PDF and you're good to go.
It sounds complicated, but it's less than 10 taps or so, surprisingly fast.
On the Mac File>Export to...>PDF does export all sheets in one pdf. So in that respect the behavior is consistent across the platforms. On the Mac as Wayne describes you can print just one sheet, though, curiously on my machine it looks different from his screenshot (maybe it's a printer driver thing):
SG

Linked AI with overlays looks fine on PC when exported to PDF, but Mac horribly distorts the color?

I'm pulling in an .AI file into my .INDD on PC, and it looks beautiful! I export the PDF, send it to my supervisor, who is on a Mac, and it looks like garbage!
Magnificent, beautiful, bright!
I think this got pulled out of a dumpster...
What is going on? When my supervisor tried to print it, it still came out that way, but when I print it, it's fine.
A bit about the .AI file: It's a gradient mesh with multiple layers of semi-transparent, "soft-light" overlaid patterns. The files are placed as links into the InDesign file. They have matching color profiles. I also tried embedding the link in case that was the issue. I am at a loss.
P.S. The quote above is not an indication of my feelings toward Adobe. It just happened to be in the document I'm working on.

Yup, she was using Preview. Looking at it in other programs solved the issue. Sheesh, what a mess!
Thank you (and Peter) for your timely responses!

How can I make my images look good when exporting to PDF document?

Hello! I'm struggling here with a PDF Brochure that I need to create (intended for web only, not print).
There are two images that look horrible and pixelated when I create my PDF file. I have tried everything, making the images bigger and smaller, using 72 dpi images and 300 dpi ones. Everything results the same way... It looks perfect in my InDesign file, but in the PDF it looks all damaged. Here are two screen shots, one of how it looks in the PDF and one of how it looks in InDesign.
Could you please tell me what I need to do to guarantee that the image looks good quality in the PDF? (My document is 40cmx20cm, I don't not if using cm is affecting the document).
To export to PDF I'm using the option: Adobe PDF pressets --> Smallest file size.
If you can help me I would really appreciate it!
Thank you,
Nataly.

beer and no prepress schrieb:
If it's for the web, why not export to JPEG? Why PDF?
Terrible idea. In a JPG the text will not be alive, you loose all interactivity.
And making JPGs with InDesign is not what the program is meant to make.

When you create a link to a web page in numbers and we export the PDF file, the link is offset by 3 rows. Example: if I put a link on the text in cell A1, I found the link A4. In fact, this feature becomes unusable. How can we solve this problem? Thank yo

When you create a link to a web page in numbers "Mavericks" and we export the PDF file, the link is offset by 3 rows. Example: if I put a link on the text (with Cmd-K) in cell A1, I found the link A4. In fact, this feature becomes unusable. How can we solve this problem?
Thank you.

Hi again Raja!
I did as you recommended and installed HTTPWatch and below is the outcome of that program. It is the exact string with the only exception of obfuscated servernames and portnumbers. The last part that begins with "sap_ep_baseurl=" makes me suspicious, is that part really correct? It looks like it's lacking things.
Best regards
Benny
http://<server:port>/sap/bc/bsp/sap/Z_PURCHASE_REQ/process.htm?
sap-syscmd=nocookie&sap-client=200&sap-language=sv&style_sheet=
http%3A%2F%2F<server>%3A<port>%2Firj%2Fportalapps%2F
com.sap.portal.design.portaldesigndata%2Fthemes%2Fportal%2Fsap_tradeshow%2F
controls%2Fcontrols_ie6.css%3F7.0.10.0.0&sap-cssversion=7.0.10.0.0&sap-tray-type
=null&sap-tray-padding=null&sap-accessibility=&sap-ep-version=7.00.200611091758&
sap_ep_version=7.00.200611091758&sap_ep_baseurl=http%3A%2F%2F
<server>%3A<port>%2Firj%2Fportal&matnr=9780198603641

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....

Hi randiceleste,
How are you applying that dotted Cell Border?
Using 1 point dotted Border below a row in Numbers:
Then Menu > File > Print... > Print... > PDF > Save as PDF
What point size are you applying?
Regards,
Ian.

Numbers exports entire document as a single page PDF

I'm trying to give numbers a shot on an iPad, but so far I'm running into what seems like a very critical bug.
I have a relatively simple numbers document that I'm working with. If I were to print it via os x, it would span 3 8.5x11 pages. It would stand to reason then, that if I exported it to a PDF, I would get a PDF with three 8.5x11 sized pages. But no matter what I do, when I export to PDF (On iOS or OS X) I get one long PDF that's a single page that doesn't fit any standardized page size. At least on OS X I can print and save a PDF from the print dialogue. That option doesn't exist on iOS. Does anyone habe a workaround for this bizarre behavior?

Can't answer your question, but I experience something a little different, I have a one page Numbers file that contains a chart, a 4x6 table and title. When I go to print to see if it fits on one page and I have the page set to Portrait, and the size set to US (I assume this means 8.5x11) it fits just fine. Then I exit Print and try to export to PDF to open in another app (ZoomNotes) but while it prepared the PDF, the preview doesn't look like an 8.5x11 representation, then when I open it in zoomnotes, it gets imported as a 9.5x11 and zoomnotes won't change it. There needs to be a way to force PDF exports to the correct page size.
Sorry for for jumping on your post, but maybe with some activity, we'll both get someone looking at this.

Numbers won't export to pdf

Whenever I try to export to pdf from Numbers, I get this error message:
This is frustrating because of course the file does not exist. I want numbers to create the file. I like numbers as a program, but I can't just send people numbers files, they can't open them. I need to be able to easily pdf my work.
The method I'm using is File>export to>pdf... Then I once that window is open I select next, choose a name to save the pdf, and then I get the above error message.
I'm using Numbers 3.5.2.
I successfully saved as pdf from the print screen, but I don't want to have to take 3 extras steps just because the export command has a bug.

Suggest in your menu Numbers > Provide Numbers Feedback that you report this problem to Apple... after, of course, you have tried closing Numbers, and restarting your Mac to see if the problem still persists. It might be a temporary glitch.
SG

Pages/Numbers export pdf to (iBook)

Since my iPad is basicly my new computer I got Pages and Numbers for it.
Now everything works fine somfar, but I am missing one small thing.
I did not buy 3G model, just Info on that part.
When I work with different docs, I love to save them as .pdf, both from Numbers and Pages. What I am missing is an export option, directly from Pages and Numbers to such readers as iBooks. Instead I have tp export to iDisk, send mail to myself og to iTunes, (iTunes I have not figurer out yet where the pdf goes)
Now if I where at a wi-fi all the time, this would not be a problem, part from the long process.
So no matter if I where at wi-fi or not, had 3G or not, it would be so much easier to be able to, export as .pdf directly into iBooks, for say.
Message was edited by: M. Andersen

You can send your suggestion to Apple with this feedback form:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

How to export of multi-sheet Numbers file to PDF in one go?

Attempts to export more than first sheet as a PDF fails. Export to Excel is sort of OK, but only with some loss of format.
PDF work-around involved saving the Numbers file with different file names for succeeding sheets, then eliminating earlier sheets before exporting as PDFs, and finally using Acrobat Pro to glue the whole boiling together. Very clumsy.
What am I doing wrong? And what should I do instead?

I would have thought that "Print Sheet(s)" would have done this but... Export to PDF does support multiple sheet "printing." Select the Sheets then Export > PDF...
Regards,

Exported PDF looks beautiful in Pages and Preview not in Acrobat Reader

Hi, I need a little help. I created an eBrochure in Pages which looks beautiful. When I export it to PDF, it looks amazing in Preview but not in Adobe Acrobat Reader; pictures doesn't look so bright and shiny, they loom more opaque. Also fonts look kind of weird. I went to Photoshop and tried to do it there, it looks better in Acrobat Reader but texts don't print as nice as the Pages one (photos do). So my problem I guess is with the photos on Pages... What can I do to ensure that my document created in Pages and exported to PDF can have the same quality in the Reader as it has in Preview?
Photos are in JPEG format and have a decent resolution I guess:
File Size 1.4 MB
With: 1200 pixels
Height: 1800 pixels
Resolution: 300 pixels/ inch
Pixel Dimensions: 6.18M
Pages computer is a MBA, 1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, OS X 10.5.7, Pages '09 4.0.2
Thanks.

As far as I know, there is no provision for such settings in these programs.
Developer documentation for ICC colour management in Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and Firefox 3.5, see below. Firefox 3 has ICC colour management disabled by default. Firefox 3.5 has ICC colour management for images within which there is embedded an ICC source colour space profile. It is possible to set Firefox to colour manage the application windows as well as images with embedded ICC profiles. The developer documentation discusses how to do this in what sounds suspiciously like a command line / terminal tool, and also how to point Firefox 3.5 to the display profile. This in turn sounds suspiciously like Firefox 3.5 is unable to talk to the system level service and ask for the display profile automatically.
Camino and Opera ... I'll pass. I suspect it's more of the same mess.
/hh
Reference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/ICCcolor_correction_inFirefox

Numbers export to PDF looks horrible

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for