Re: st: printing graphs to PDF under program control

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

At 4:27 PM -0400 10/16/04, Kit Baum wrote:
> If you do graph export foo.pdf on Mac OS X, it just works. No 
> Distiller needed (in fact no Acrobat needed; Preview comes with the 
> OS, and although it doesn't have all of the features of the full 
> (and costly) Acrobat package...

In addition to using Distiller, it should presumably also be possible 
to create a PostScript file from within Stata and then use ps2pdf (a 
shell script which uses Ghostscript to convert PostScript files to 
PDF).  I use ps2pdf occasionally, though since I do most of my work 
on OS X I haven't needed it for Stata graphs (as Kit notes above), 
and thus haven't tried it (perhaps someone else has some experience 
here?).  Of course you won't have all the options you have with 
Distiller, but the advantage is that the same method would work on 
any platform Ghostscript runs on (virtually all).  And using -shell- 
you could easily drive this from within Stata.


-- Phil
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