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The technology used to embed charts into other document, called OLE, has certain limitations on graphics18. To work around these, Msc-generator employs a few simplifications.
If a chart contains a lot of fallback images, the size of the embedded object can become large, several megabytes for a chart. To control the size of the embedded chart and eventually that of your container document, for embedded charts a new category ("Embedded Object") appears on the ribbon, allowing you to adjust the quality of the fallback images.
Note that this issue is fixed in newer versions of Microsoft Office, which are able to compress the images in embedded objects.
When this category is selected, Msc-generator shows the chart as it will appear in the container document. Fallback image locations are briefly highlighted when switching to this category. The ribbon category shows how large the embedded object will be (if not compressed by the container applications) and what percentage of the chart is drawn on fallback images (if any). There is a slider allowing you to set the resolution of the fallback images. You can observe the resulting image size and visual quality immediately.
Only drawing operations permitted in old-style Windows Metafiles (developed in 16-bit Windows times) are permitted by design.
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