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Marker transparancy not being copied

bculver — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 11:12:12 GMT

I have a graph made on the Fit Y by X platform with many data points which defaults to Marker Drawing Mode "Fast". I changed the Transparency of the markers, which incidentally changes the Marker Drawing Mode to "Normal", but when I ctrl+J to save to journal or try to copy and paste as Enhanced Metafile to a powerpoint, the transparency is reset and looks as if it's using the "Fast" drawing mode. I have used the Big Class dataset to simulate 1 million rows to show the issue. On the left is the custom report, on the right is the journal after ctrl+J, and the bottom left is a word doc after copy and paste as Enhanced Metafile. The bottom right is the result of exporting the graph as an EMF file, which interestingly preserved the transparency. I would rather not use this method though since copy+paste is much more convenient and it doesn't look the same as the original.

I am using JMP 15.0.0

Thanks for any help provided.

Re: Marker transparancy not being copied

Thierry_S — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 05:31:57 GMT

Hi,
This appears to be a glitch associated with version 15.0.0 because in version 14.1, when I try to switch on transparency in the Fit Y by X platform while being in Fast marker drawing mode, JMP returns an error message telling me that transparency can not be turned on in Fast mode.
I believe that there has been a couple of updates since version 15.0.0, hence I would recommend upgrading (if it is an option for you).
Otherwise, you may need to stay away from the Fact drawing mode when generating plots for export.
Best,
TS

Re: Marker transparancy not being copied

txnelson — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 10:56:04 GMT

I can replicate your findings in JMP 15.2.1, however, JMP 16 appears to not swap back to Fast Drawing Mode when moving the graph to a journal.