Re: st: Another Graph Question

[Chinh Nguyen <cnguyen@stata.com>]

"David A. Wagstaff" <daw22@psu.edu> wrote:

> I have been having problems using cut-and-paste to copy
> Stata graphs to Word or Excel.  I am getting help from Tech
> Support.  However, duplication the problem on your test
> machines has been difficult.  I am running W98, 800 x 600,
> with 128MB ram and a NVIDA video card.
We recently changed Stata 8 to copy files to the clipboard in EMF 
format rather than WMF format which we had used in the past.  We 
switched to EMF because the WMF format appears to have problems with 
filled polygons which is what we use to graph confidence intervals 
(among other things).

Unfortunately, it appears that the EMF format was not introduced to 
Windows until Windows 98 SE so it doesn't work in Windows 98 and 
earlier.  We'll make the clipboard format settable between WMF and EMF 
but I suggest you export your graph to a file in WMF format until we 
put out an update.  This however does not fix the problem with filled 
polygons but we're still investigating this limitation with the WMF 
format.

-Chinh Nguyen
 cnguyen@stata.com

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