--- "Hoffman, George" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Having used stata dos/windows for the past 15+ years, I have set up
> stata to autolog all sessions in text format. My approach to graphics
> logging is still absolutely manual, and often I end up wising that I
> had saved a graph window that I had closed (usually a while back).
> When I do desire to save a graph, I usual clipboard cut-paste to
> powerpoint.
>
> Queries: do any listers have a more convenient way to save graphics
> froma session? Suggestion for graphics application other than PP to
> paste a series of graphs? Is there any way to have stata save a
> combined log of text and graphics, now or in the future?
You can save a graph using the -graph save- command, see -help graph
save-. Having said that, I work a lot with graphs but I almost never
save them. I almost always work from a do file, the only reason for
working interactively is to quickly try stuff out, but any change in
data, analysis, or graph I want to keep is in a do file. As a
consequence I hardly ever save changed data, look in a log, or try to
find a stored graph; it just much easier to re-do the do-file. There
are two benefits of this way of working: often I want to do something
similar to what I have done before, in those cases I can use those
earlier do-files as a template (many of the more elaborate examples I
sent to statalist started life that way). The most important benefit
and timesaver is that this way it becomes much easier to correct
mistakes.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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