Perhaps not. On my machine (NT4, most recent Stata8, using -graph7-), the
default when copying to the clipboard, is white background with black
foreground. Paste into <insert word processor here> and print.
Lee
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Spady [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 2:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: Re: RE: Re: graph presences in command line graph
> creation.
>
> Well, that answers that. I guess I will have to try using a runaround by
> editing the *.wmf if I need to print the graph.
> Don
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:05
> Subject: st: RE: Re: graph presences in command line graph creation.
>
>
> > Don Spady
> > >
> > > I want to create a vplplot (vertical plot of two variables,
> > > sorted by one of
> > > them) and there is no command to do this in the drop down
> > > graphics tab. So
> > > I do it by using the command line. However, I get a black
> > > background and
> > > yellow foreground. How do I change this to a white (or
> > > whatever) background
> > > and a black (or whatever) foreground. The use of the graph
> > > preferences in
> > > the graphics tab doesn't work. This was very easy to do in
> > > Stata 7 but not
> > > at all intuitive in Stata 8.
> >
> > -vplplot- as a user-written, unadopted
> > program does not feature in the Graphics
> > menu in Stata 8. (The same is true of all
> > other user-written unadopted graphics programs.
> > Many, perhaps most, but not all, are superseded
> > by the new graphics.)
> >
> > So Don does it from the command line. The effect
> > is to set -version- to 6 while -vplplot- is
> > working. The important bit of -vplplot- for
> > this question is calling up -graph- actually to draw
> > the graph, and under version control Stata 8
> > calls up what it knows as -graph7-.
> >
> > However, it is my impression that graphics
> > settings in Stata 8 do not also apply to
> > -graph7-. In any case, it does not seem possible
> > within Stata 8 to replicate all the graphical
> > flexibility of previous versions. On backgrounds,
> > the Henry Ford principle applies that you
> > can have any colour so long as it's black.
> >
> > A different question arises for me as author
> > of -vplplot-. Will I rewrite it for Stata 8
> > or is it superseded by the new graphics?
> > My guess at this point is the former,
> > although some of the functionality can
> > I guess be provided very nicely by
> > overlaying graphs in Stata 8.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
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