A number of people have expressed some interest in exporting stata
graphs to a pdf format, so I put together a program which will "distill" a
single pdf file from one or more ps files in a specified folder on a
Windows PC. It will only work with Adobe Ver4.0 and up, though maybe
that's not the case. In case this matters, I usually export graphs
like this:
graph export fig1.ps, mag(175) orientation(landscape)
fontface(Garamond) replace logo(off) tmargin(.5) lmargin(.5);
To use ps2pdf, type "ps2pdf C:/.../outputfilename.txt". This will
produce a file named outputfilename.txt which will be used by Adobe
Distiller to yield outputfilename.pdf, which will contain ALL of the ps
files in C:/.../. Most importantly, ALL of the ps files as well as the
outputfilename.txt will be ERASED, since I hate to do this myself.
You can download it from
http://lily.src.uchicago.edu/~dvmaster/FILES/Stata/ps2pdf.ado
Please send me comments and suggestions or just mess with it yourself.
Parts of it are pretty inelegant, but it seems to work on my PC.
DVM
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