Preserved Topic: MS Excel & PPT GIF format?

I've run into a weird problem, again. I forgot about this problem but it's smacked me again: if you save an Excel chart as a web page or 'publish' it just so you can snag the GIF charts they are some kind of really bizarre format that freaks out in Photoshop, the transparent BGs actually show up as a color in Photoshop but are transparent on a webpage. I also am seeing them look like crap in one application and fine in another, for example, these GIFs look fine in PhotoEditor but it you insert it into an HTML page with the correct size attributes, it looks like it's been resized via the size attributes and the text is all but unreadable.

Anybody know what's up with this?

Jason

I would just run a printscreen in some program in which they look good, then paste in to photoshop.

You mind posting some of the images in question, JK?

[edit] I tried to recreate the problem with Excel but I haven't had any problems with the gif charts so far. Could you be more specific [/edit]



[This message has been edited by silence (edited 06-22-2001).]

I would print screen but we're going for automation here as much as possible. I did find a work around however, we already had a macro in place that takes the data and charts from 12 spread sheets and inserts them into a power point presentation. Within Power Point you can save it as html and go into the options for the "publish" and specify "allow output to png".

For some reason it outputs the pngs beautifully, as a matter of fact, if I check the properties of the ping it's a little larger than the gif that is output and if I go to the original web page and plug the png's size values into the IMG attributes for the original GIF, it works fine! I'll just use the pngs though as the browsers viewing the intranet support these just fine and file size is not to shabby.

Does M$ suck or what?!?!

Jason