KNOWLEDGEBASE - ARTICLE #1884

How to prevent exploded pie charts from being clipped when placed on layouts or exported.

When you make a pie chart, you can choose than any slice (or all) is "exploded" from the rest of the graph, to highlight it. When 6 Mac then exports this graph, or places it on a layout, it may crop off part of the graph. It seems to be computing the graph size assuming no clipping. This is a problem with Prism 6 Mac up to 6.0d, but is not a problem with Prism Windows 6.03. 

The work around is easy. Add something to the graph to make Prism aware that the border extends a bit further in the direction of the exploded bars.  Either add a text object, and make the text white, or create a line or box and make that color white (assuming the page background is white). 



Keywords: pie graph, donut,

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