Re: st: Stata Graphs in Beamer

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Ghostscript can be easily installed with MiKTeX, and ps2pdf works fine.
m.p.

Phil Schumm wrote:

> On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:27 PM, bta78@mail.eco.utexas.edu wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know how to get stata graphs into Beamer for a  
> > presentation?  I can get it into my paper using Miktex and the  
> > following commands:
> >
> > \usepackage{graphicx}
> > \includegraphics[scale=.75]{salaries.eps}
> >
> > But, this doesn't translate over to Beamer (of which I am a  
> > relatively new user).
>
>
> You can only use EPS or PS files with Beamer if you're using latex  
> and dvips (not if you're using pdflatex).  If you want to use an EPS  
> file with pdflatex, you may use the (free) script ps2pdf to convert  
> it to PDF first.  ps2pdf uses Ghostscript (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/ 
> ~ghost/) to do the actual conversion; Ghostscript is often installed  
> along with a TeX distribution, but I don't know about MiKTeX (I've  
> never used it).  Of course, if you have access to Acrobat, that's  
> probably the way to go.  See Section 12 (Graphics) in the Beamer  
> user's manual for more information.
>
>
> On Apr 25, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Michael Hagauer (GMX) wrote:
>
>
> > copy paste into ppt, for example!
>
>
> I don't know whether to laugh or to cry...
>
>
> -- Phil
>
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