In the thread "TeX template for PDF help files" Roy made this comment:
"Stata is not capable of displaying high resolution images. It looks
like something out of 1980s, except it comes in color. Think Atari or
Commodore 64."
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-11/msg01206.html
Could you please elaborate on that statement? The resolution is
limited by the display, not by Stata.
Friedrich
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Roy Wada <[email protected]> wrote:
> ... Stata is not capable of displaying
> high resolution images. It looks like something out of 1980s, except
> it comes in color. Think Atari or Commodore 64.
>
> It doesn't matter if it's smcl or ascii or whatever. It will always
> look bad on Stata display window. This is one of reasons I never
> bothered to display tables there. Even the browser has a better
> resolution. I'm guessing a higher resolution will slow it down because
> it's hard to imagine they could not farm this out. You'd think at
> least the viewer window would have a better resoultion than this. But
> if they did that, it would make the main window look terrible by
> comparison.
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