I use a program called metacomp put out by companion software
(www.companionsoftware.com) I allows a much better ability to edit a *.wmf
file than does Word, which is useless. I forget what I paid but it was only
about $20 - $30. You can download a trial copy that lets you work for, I
think, 10 sessions, which is enough for a pretty good assessment. It is well
worth the trouble to look at this product.
Don Spady
>===== Original Message From "Michael Blasnik" <[email protected]>
=====
>I suggest that you look at help for MS Word, where you will find that (in
>windows, at least) you can right click on any .emf or .wmf graphic that you
>import and find the choice for -edit picture-. I never use that approach
>because, at least in many earlier versions of Word, it would have been more
>properly named -Destroy Picture- as Word would ungroup and then hopelessly
>mess up graphics (rotating text, moving aligned items, etc..). Maybe they
>have fixed this but it may be smarter to either use Stata to get what you
>want, or use an actual graphics editing program that works with vector
>graphics files like .emf or .wmf files. Check Statalist archives for past
>recommendations from users).
>
>Michael Blasnik
>[email protected]
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Renzo Comolli" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 1:28 PM
>Subject: st: .wmf or .emf ? Can we edit the graphs outside Stata? How
>
>
>> Dear Statalist,
>>
>> Among the options of -graph export- there is to save it as .wmf or .emf
>> What is the difference? I tried to look on the manuals and everywhere on
>the
>> internet, but I am still not clear. I understand that the .emf has the
>data
>> generating the graph inside the file itself, but where? How to access
>them?
>> And how to use them?
>>
>> Once the graphs have been imported in MSWord, is it still possible to edit
>> them? If so, how? Or should they be imported in Excell to edit them and
>then
>> exported to Word from there?
>> I know that most (possibly all and more) of the editing that I am thinking
>> of could be done in Stata itself before exporting, but so far editing the
>> graphs in Stata has not been time-efective for me in terms of the time
>spent
>> to learn the commands.
>>
>> So far the only thing I managed to do in Word is cropping the edges, which
>> is useless to me.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Renzo Comolli
>
>
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