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From | Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | re: st: Graph png format - differences in scaling between vers. 10 and 11 |
Date | Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:02:58 -0400 |
<> Johannes wrote > I just stumbled across an unexpected behaviour. I updated some graphs for > a Beamer-Latex presentation. I used the "png" format. But I used Stata 11 > instead of Stata 10. The result was a file smaller than the previous > version (by a factor of four) with a smaller resolution. I guess, png is > not a vector format and not indifferent to scaling. So, there is a smaller > picture with less pixels which looks less nice when its size is increased. > Even if I use Stata version-control, there is no difference. These new > graphs look bad in the presentation, so I recreated them using Stata 10. > There are many workarounds and this is not a big problem - but is this > wanted, that the output changes even when I use version control? And the > previous default looked better to me. Or did I overlook something? I have no idea what may have happened between 10 and 11, because I have never used png format.