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

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Another way to create a .pdf version of a Stata .hlp file is to create a 
.ps version of a Stata .hlp file using -translate-, as in

. translate c:\ado\personal\parmest.hlp parmest.ps

and then to use whatever software is available on your system to convert 
the .ps file to a .pdf file. For instance, I work on Windows 2000, and use 
GhostScript/GSView to convert .ps files to .pdf files, using the menu sequence

File->Convert

inside GhostScript/GSView.

I hope this helps.

Roger


At 12:48 06/03/2005, Jeffrey Simons wrote:

> I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you open the help
> file, go to "print viewer" from the file menu, then enter any header
> information you want, then when you get to the print dialog box, select save
> as pdf, that will give you a formatted pdf file of the help file.
>
> >
> > Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:11:53 -0500
> > From: "Michael S. Hanson" <mshanson@mac.com>
> > Subject: st: Using -translate- to create PDF of .hlp file
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >                                          -- Mike
> >
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