Re: st: copying graphs in Mac

[David Airey <david.airey@vanderbilt.edu>]

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For the record, Stata 10 for OS X copies graphs to the Finder  
clipboard as PDF. For some applications this doesn't paste at all, and  
that behavior is not satisfying I agree. For example, pasting works  
fine into Apple Pages and Microsoft Word, but Apple Mail does not  
recognize the clipboard contents. Apple Mail will paste if you choose  
Paste and Match Style or Past as Quotation rather than plain Paste.  
The Apple Finder clipboard also doesn't recognize what is on the  
clipboard after copying a graph from Stata, if you Show clipboard in  
the Finder. Remember you can change what goes onto the clipboard in  
the Stata general preferences such that is PICT. If you do that, you  
can past anywhere, but then you get PICT not the better PDF. Also, the  
Finder clipboard does recognize what is on the clipboard if you copy  
as PICT (it says and shows a picture). All this seems a little buggy  
to me, either in the Finder or in Stata for Mac. I think it is Stata,  
because if you have a PDF open in Preview, and you copy, you get a  
picture in the Finder clipboard no problem.

-Dave

On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:

> this worked great - thanks
>
> my problem was apparently that I tried to insert a file rather than  
> insert -> picture -> file!
>
> Phil Schumm wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Richard Goldstein wrote:
> > > I have recently switched from Windows to a Mac and am using an up- 
> > > to-date version of Stata 10.1. I want to copy a graph from Stata  
> > > into Open Office
> > >
> > > I tried using Stata's copy graph, but Open Office thinks there is  
> > > nothing to paste and I get nothing
> > >
> > > I tried exporting to eps and, again, nothing was inserted into  
> > > Open Office
> > >
> > > I exported the graph to pict -- open office then accepted it BUT  
> > > only into the draw program -- I need it in the word processor  
> > > because then it can be saved to a ".doc" file and sent to  
> > > colleagues who use Word in Windows
> > It's been quite a while since I used OO, but IIRC I have saved  
> > graphs in PNG format (e.g., -graph export foo.png-) and then used  
> > Insert -> Picture -> From File...  Does this no longer work?
> > -- Phil
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