I am trying to produce a boxplot comparing three different variables across
three different countries. I started by saving the default graphing scheme
(colors) and pasting it into a Word document. The images look beautiful on
screen but the boxes print as a black outline & median line over a white
(no fill) box--no way to distinguish one variable from another.
I tried the [set printcolor] command in different options (gs1-3).
Printed directly from Stata (File/Print Graph), it produces boxes with a
uniform gray tone. When pasted into Word it turns back to black outlines
around white boxes--no way to distinguish which variable is which in either
case.
Then I tried setting the fill and outline colors for the boxes manually
choosing gs1 for var1, gs8 for var2 and gs16 for var3. With a bit of
tweaking, this produced a graph that printed well directly from Stata--all
boxes and variables were distinguishably different. But when I pasted it
into Word, same thing: black outlines, white boxes.
I then tried saving as different image types (.tif, eps & .png--my original
attempts were all with .emf format). the .eps file didn't print at all and
the resolution on .eps with tif preview was so low I didn't even bother
printing it. When I printed the .tif and .png images (inserted into Word),
the fill colors in the boxes came out correctly, but the text resolution of
labels, headings, etc. was unacceptably poor.
Can anyone suggest what I can do to get a publication quality grayscale
image inserted into a Word document?
(Note: sample syntax below.)
