Why am I unable to copy graphs and tables from Stata 11 into other applications?
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Copying graphs and tables on Mac
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Author
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Chinh Nguyen, StataCorp
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Date
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July 2009
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Some users may experience problems with pasting graphs and tables from Stata
to other applications.
Beginning with Stata 11 for Mac, Stata copies images to the Clipboard
as PDF for the best possible output. However, some legacy
applications, such as Microsoft Office 2004, only support pasting of images
from the Clipboard as PICT or TIFF. This can cause problems for
users who attempt to copy an image from within Stata and paste the image into
another application.
The PICT format has been deprecated by Apple in favor of PDF
since Mac OS X was first released. Apple has now completely dropped support
for PICT in 64-bit applications, which means that the format is
unavailable to Stata. For this reason, Stata also includes a TIFF image in
the Clipboard along with the PDF image, but some older applications may not
support multiple image formats in the Clipboard. The only solution is to
upgrade your application to one that supports PDF in the
Clipboard. Microsoft Office 2008 does support PDF in the
Clipboard.
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