st: Re: question about SMCL

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Well, I did not know that the command was Mac OS X-specific, but it  
sort of makes sense that it would be. Mac OS X is the only OS Stata  
supports for which PDF is a native format (so that any application  
that can print can "print to pdf" ). That's why you can create PDFs  
directly with -graph export foo.pdf- only on Mac OS X.

I have updated -hlp2pdf- to allow for the existence of other OS. I  
have no way of testing the routine on Windows or *nix Stata (I'm not  
running any GUI versions of Linux or other flavors of *nix at  
present) but it should work, creating a .ps file on those systems. As  
Sergiy mentions, there are plenty of free PS->PDF translators that  
would do the last step. For Linux, you should be able to use  
"ps2pdf", which I believe is standard issue in any LaTeX  
distribution. For convenience, the updated -hlp2pdf- returns r 
(printfile), a local macro containing the fully qualified filename,  
e.g.,

  r(printfile) : "/Users/baum/doc/hlp2pdf.pdf"

I also added a -replace- option.

The updated version of -hlp2pdf- is available from SSC via -ssc  
install hlp2pdf- or, if you have it installed, via -adoupdate-.

Kit

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Apr 12, 2008, at 02:33 , David wrote:

> Shameful! Kit has neglected to say his command is Mac specific.
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