Comment 3 for bug 589713

I'm working on Windows XP Professional SP 2. (Corporate standard)

The "export as bitmap" button on the toolbar seems to work fine.

The ultimate goal is for our users to be able to get a vector-representation into standard Microsoft Office products such as Word and Powerpoint. In the process, they may want to make minor edits to the image such as changing the size of axis text. Since we're going to Office, the range of valid formats are limited to metafiles, EPS, and bitmaps. Bitmaps are not optimal since they require that they be sized appropriately prior to being exported.

In my environment, saving the file as .EPS saved the bitmap properly, but clipped the left and bottom edges. The text at the top of the plot looks a bit like a second generation fax transmission. So it was successful in that it is vector, but unsuccessful due to clipping and poor quality text.

Saving as .EMF looks the same as .EMF on the clipboard; bitmap lost and border lines missing. I tried it with and without "convert text to paths" turned on. The problems were the same both ways, although the text quality was less good with the option turned off.