Problems converting Powerpoint/Excel to PDF, line thickness issue

Hi,
I have been having problems with how lines in excel come out when printing using Adobe PDF or PDF Creator. In both cases the thickness of lines, while consistent in excel, comes out completely random in PDF. My PDFs go to clients and appearances are very important. The most common way for me to prepare reports is to to paste Excel spreadsheets into PowerPoint as links, adjust the size of the spreadsheet to fit the slide and print, and PDF Powerpoint document. I am using Office 2010, and Adobe Acrobat X.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Kiki

There are two options that can think of. 1. use wider lines. 2. change the print quality to 300 or at least 600, rather then the default 1200. The problem often stems from a line being denoted in pixel width rather than point width. At 1200 dpi, the pixel width is small. That causes a problem when displayed on a screen (a print out might be fine) at 96 dpi. If you can change to point width, it will be better.
At least this gives you something to look at. It is not a new problem as already mentioned and I never pursued it well enough (partly because I am not really a WORD or Excel user).

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Hi,
I have been having problems with how lines in excel come out when printing using Adobe PDF or PDF Creator. In both cases the thickness of lines, while consistent in excel, comes out completely random in PDF. My PDFs go to clients and appearances are very important. The most common way for me to prepare reports is to to paste Excel spreadsheets into PowerPoint as links, adjust the size of the spreadsheet to fit the slide and print, and PDF Powerpoint document. I am using Office 2010, and Adobe Acrobat X.
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