Allan Reese
> I have for some time printed draft graphs from Stata by
> putting the paper
> landscape and applying 150% scaling in graph options. I
> don't recall
> problems in Stata 7, but recently tried it with Stata 8 and
> found that the
> graph was scaled as desired but the text was scaled rather
> more. For
> example, the title which fitted well within the graph area
> on the screen
> became far wider than the plot when printed. Printing at
> 100% gave the
> same relative sizes as on the screen. I expect overall
> scaling between
> screen and printer to retain WYSIWYG proportions. Do other
> users get the
> same results? Is this a bug?
If you say "bug" to a graphics developer,
they will probably explain about different implementations
of different fonts on different platforms for a couple of
months.
What Allan did is, > or <, what I used to do. But
with some fonts things can indeed go very awry.
However, I get _much_ better results from
something like
. graph display, xsize(7) ysize(5)
Nick
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