st: Re: translate -> pdf

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Unncessarily cumbersome, perhaps necessary in that operating system, 
but in Panther just do

. translate rollreg.hlp rollreg.pdf

and It Just Works.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html

On Mar 7, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Roger wrote:


> Another way to create a .pdf version of a Stata .hlp file is to create 
> a
> .ps version of a Stata .hlp file using -translate-, as in
>
> . translate c:\ado\personal\parmest.hlp parmest.ps
>
> and then to use whatever software is available on your system to 
> convert
> the .ps file to a .pdf file. For instance, I work on Windows 2000, and 
> use
> GhostScript/GSView to convert .ps files to .pdf files, using the menu 
> sequence
>
> File->Convert
>
> inside GhostScript/GSView.
>
> I hope this helps.
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