Re: st: AW: Stata 11 crashes after PNG export with a size option

[Federico Belotti <f.belotti@econometrics.it>]

Same behavior on:

Windows  Server  2003  R2  Standard X64 edition SP2
Stata MP4-64bit 11.0 base    13jul2009

Best,

Federico

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Federico Belotti
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Tor Vergata University
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Tim wrote:
> And on Vista Ultimate SP2, 32 bit
>
> Martin Weiss wrote:
> > <>
> >
> >
> > Same behavior on Vista Business SP2, 64 bit...
> >
> >
> >
> > HTH
> > Martin
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] Im Auftrag von Sergiy 
> > Radyakin
> > Gesendet: Montag, 10. August 2009 02:24
> > An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Betreff: st: Stata 11 crashes after PNG export with a size option
> >
> > Dear Stata users and developers,
> > there seems to be a problem with -graph export- command, when export
> > format is PNG and a documented sizing option (either of height or
> > width, or both) is specified.
> > In particular, Stata's executable crashes and all the unsaved data
> > currently in memory is lost. The message I get is: "An unhandled win32
> > exception occurred in StataMP-64.exe".
> >
> > Here is a trivial code that reproduces the bug:
> >
> > version 11
> > clear
> > set memory 1m
> > sysuse auto
> > twoway line price weight
> > graph export "Bug.png", height(600) width(800) replace
> >
> > /* where last command can also be (all fail):
> > graph export "Bug.png", height(600) replace
> > graph export "Bug.png", width(800) replace
> > */
> >
> > Export to PNG without a sizing option works fine. Export with a
> > context-menu works fine. Export to PNG with sizing option on this
> > computer in Stata 9.2 and 10.1 works fine.
> > Stata fails after export regardless of which command was used to draw
> > the graph (line, scatter, area, etc) which implies -export- is guilty.
> > Before the crash, Stata actually produces the requested PNG file.
> > While Stata 10 (and Stata 9) scales the graph maintaining aspect ratio
> > to fit to the new dimensions, Stata 11 seems to stretch the graph,
> > which is not desirable. Is it the new behavior?
> >
> > Is there any workaround for the current version of Stata 11? The
> > -version- statement doesn't help.
> >
> > About: Windows Server 2003, Stata MP8-64, v11.0.669, born 13 Jul 2009.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >     Sergiy Radyakin
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