Re: st: accessing pdf documentation

[Hiroyuki Kawakatsu <hkawakat@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 9 May 2011 Abhimanyu Arora wrote:
[...]
> I get the following message when I try to access the pdf documentation
> under the help tab
> http://screencast.com/t/7vEhT0RhMopz
> Is there a way to fix this up/alternative way to view the pdf
> documentation?
[...]

if you are on a un*x machine, look for the file 'stata_pdf' in your
stata installation directory and modify it (after making a backup copy
as advised in the script) according to your pdf viewer command syntax.
for an example of a modified version that works with xpdf (which i use
happily without problems so far), see
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-11/msg00590.html

h.
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