Re: st: pdf_options for graph export

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

Sorry, I should have mentioned:  that does work on Windows; as so:

. graph export mygraph.eps
. ! ps2pdf mygraph.eps

assuming you have ghostscript installed.

- NW

On 8/22/2011 12:06 PM, Eric Booth wrote:
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> I've never used (and wasn't aware of) the pdf export in Stata for Windows.
>    If you don't have time to wait for the response that Nick Winter gets, perhaps you can export the graph to ps or eps and then use a command line utility to batch convert your graphics to pdf (?).  In MacOSX, I'd use something like 'gs', and there appears to be a Windows version available:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/785436/ghostscript-command-line-parameters-to-convert-eps-to-pdf
>
> - Eric
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> On Aug 22, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Nick Winter wrote:
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> > I, too, noticed this and have corresponded with tech support about this, and was told that the question has been passed along to the relevant developer.  So perhaps this will be changed in a future update.
> >
> > Best,
> > Nick Winter
> >
> > On 8/22/2011 11:33 AM, Dimitriy V. Masterov wrote:
> > > Eric,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately that does not seem to alter the font in exported pdfs on
> > > Windows 7.
> > >
> > > This seems like an unfortunate limit for the pdf export command on Windows.
> > >
> > > DVM
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