Re: st: Using -translate- to create PDF of .hlp file

[James Jetton <jetton@pilot.msu.edu>]

Unless you are trying to print a lot of files, the simplest way is to

Open the help file in the viewer window, select Print Viewer..., and  
then click on the PDF button in the printer dialog.

James




On Mar 5, 2005, at 6:11 PM, Michael S. Hanson wrote:


> .
> Argh!  First line truncated on previous message....  Resending...
>
>
> 	I recently stumbled upon the following files that are nicely  
> formatted PDFs of the help document for -outreg-:
>
> 		<http://www.la.utexas.edu/~jteigen/outreg.pdf>
> 		<http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/researchcomputing/docs/ 
> outreg.pdf>
>
> I'm fairly certain that these files were created from within Stata,  
> but I'm not having much luck replicating them.  The following command  
> "works", in the sense that I do get a PDF of the help file (note that  
> I am working with Stata 8.2 on Mac OS X, which allows the direct  
> creation of a PDF according to -whelp translate-):
>
> 	translate "~/Documents/ado/plus/o/outreg.hlp" outreg.pdf,  
> trans(Viewer2pdf)
>
> but this command yields a file without the rich formating of the above  
> examples.  (The second linked example above appears to be for an older  
> version of -outreg-, but I prefer the layout and organization of it --  
> plus the fonts in the first linked example don't render quite right  
> for me.)
>
> 	Any suggestions?  -translator query Viewer2pdf- didn't turn up  
> anything that seemed appropriate to this issue, AFAICT.  Thanks.
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