st: Re: PDF graphics

[Christopher F Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

On Nov 8, 2003, at 2:33 AM, David wrote:

> I work with PDFLaTeX for my word processing, which can only take .jpg,
> .pdf, .png, and .tif figure files as input. Thus the only overlap with
> the picture formats that Stata exports to is .png, which comes out too
> grainy for publication-quality use.
>
> My current work around is to export to Postscript, Distill to PDF, and
> then manually edit the PDF to strip out the white space, etc.
>
> I'd much prefer a one-step (or even a two-step) approach. Has anyone
> else found a quicker solution? Even better, when will Stata for Windows
> have a PDF translator like the Mac version does now?
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> David Epstein
FYI, my preferred OS X LaTeX GUI front end--the freeware TeXShop 
(http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html) -- is most 
comfortable with .PDF graphics (it can handle .EPS, but it is easier to 
use .PDF graphics in-line). Since Stata for OS X can natively create 
.PDF as graphical output, it's as easy as falling off a log (although 
I've never figured out why one would want to do that).

Kit

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