Dear statalist,
Has anyone had success passing a filename under program control to
Acrobat Distiller on a Windows platform?
I wish to print my graph to a pdf file, but graph export (to pdf) is
not available under Windows. I can of course print to Acrobat
Distiller manually. But what I want to do is automate the procedure
inside a do file. At present the commands:
graph use mygraphfile
graph print, logo(off) lm(0) tm(0)
work successfully, and provided I have set Acrobat Distiller as my
default printer, the dialogue box for Acrobat Distiller comes up and
I can type the filename for the PDF file in. However, I want to
automate this by passing the filename to Distiller.
I have tried the unix approach:
printer define prn ps "mypdf_filename"
but this doesn't work under Windows ("unrecognised command: printer").
I notice that there seems to be a default value in the Distiller
dialogue box ("stata graph.pdf") but I am unsure if this is Distiller
behaviour, or something that Stata has sent to Distiller. If the
latter, then presumably there is a hook somewhere for sending one's
own choice of filename.
Finally, not all of the print graphic controls from the dialogue box
(Graphic Preferences - Printer) appear to be available in syntax, or
have I overlooked something? In particular, I notice missing are the
color mapping options, and the scaling options.
Any advice on these matters would be greatly appreciated.
--
Kind regards,
Ian
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Ian Watson
Senior Researcher
acirrt
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia
Phone: 02 9351 5622
Fax: 02 9351 5615
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.acirrt.com
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