At 17:05 07/08/02 +0200, Eva Poen wrote:
Dear list readers,
I have encountered the following problem:
In the course of some descriptive analysis I need to create a total of ca.
120 graphs in Stata (MS Windows System). I have written a loop to do this
efficiently, and everything is fine to this end.
Now I want to convert part of the graphs to .eps format, in order to
include them into my LaTeX document. This can be done by typing something
like
- translate graphi`i'.gph graph`i'.eps -
in my loop. There are two problems with the bounding box of the resulting
.eps-pictures:
1) The bounding box is not given in integers, but as i.e. "0.000 0.000
432.000 288.000". This causes ghostview/-script to complain. It should be
"0 0 432 288".
What version of GhostView/Script are you using? I use GSView Version 4.2
(dated 7 Feb 2002), and it can handle non-integer bounding boxes by
converting them to integers for display purposes, although it queries the
user before doing so. You can download the latest version from
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/, although it will nag you every time you
launch it about becoming a registered user.
2) The bounding box is calculated too large, leaving white space below the
graph. In my case this is about 1/3 of the whole picture.
You don't say what version of Stata you are using. Stata .EPS graphs used
to be like that in the days of Stata 6. However, today (in Stata 7) the
bounding box fits nicely round the graph, in my experience, except when you
use the -by- option of -graph-, in which case Stata arranges the by-groups
in a square array (so vertical and horizontal scaling are done by the same
factor). In this case, if the number of by-groups is not a perfect square
(eg 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 or 49), Stata wastes the excess space, and puts the
bounding box round the full set of graphs that would be present if the
number of by-groups was equal to the next perfect square upwards. The
solution is probably to create a separate .EPS output for each by-group and
then to tile them at the TeX or LaTeX level.
I would be very happy if at least problem 1) could be solved somehow from
within Stata (or in some other way). If the bb is given in integers,
epstool can correct the size of the bb. As long as the bb is not in
integers, epstool refuses to work.
I find that the -psbox- package in plain TeX, or the -figure- environment
in Stata Journal LaTeX, handles my Stata-produced .EPS graphics without any
trouble. (My TeX version is MiKTeX 2.0. The latest MiKTeX can be found on
http://www.miktex.org/.)
I hope this helps.
Best wishes
Roger
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