Question

I am completely new to VBA and need to export multiple graphs from an excel workbook to a single pdf using vba. I know it’s possible to export the graphs as individual pdf’s or jpgs but is it possibly to put all graphs from a workbook into one pdf using vba? Any advice would be greatly appreciated as I can’t seem to find what I’m looking for elsewhere.

My code so far prints each chart to the pdf, but each chart gets overwritten on the next print. My code is as follows:

Sub exportGraphs()
Dim Ws As Worksheet
Dim Filename As String
Filename = Application.InputBox("Enter the pdf file name", Type:=2)
Sheets("Status and SLA trends").Select
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 4").Activate
ActiveChart.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename, xlQualityStandard
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 1").Activate
ActiveChart.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename, xlQualityStandard

Sheets("Current Issue Status").Select
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 2").Activate
ActiveChart.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename, xlQualityStandard
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 5").Activate
ActiveChart.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename, xlQualityStandard
ActiveSheet.ChartObjects("Chart 8").Activate
ActiveChart.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, Filename, xlQualityStandard
End Sub

Answer 1

In the end I just exported an array of sheets to pdf, as multiple charts were on separate sheets and I didn’t need to change how they were formatted. I did it using the following code snippet

Sheets(Array("Current Issue Status", "Status and SLA trends")).Select
Dim saveLocation As String
saveLocation = Application.GetSaveAsFilename( _
fileFilter:="PDF Files (*.pdf), *.pdf")
If saveLocation <> "False" Then
ActiveSheet.ExportAsFixedFormat xlTypePDF, saveLocation, xlQualityStandard
End If