Antwort: st: png graph quality poor

[Johannes Geyer <JGeyer@diw.de>]

I recommend a vector format like .emf or .wmf 

Here is an earlier discussion when I had a similar problem:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-03/msg01190.html

Best,

Johannes

owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu schrieb am 23/12/2011 10:21:08:

> Tim Evans <Tim.Evans@wmciu.nhs.uk> 
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> st: png graph quality poor
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> Hi all,
> 
> (Stata 11.2)
> 
> I'm running a number of regressions and graphing the output before 
> exporting the graph as a .png file. I'm then pasting them into MS 
> Word and because the size of the graph is a little small, I'm 
> stretching the graph to fit the page area (I fit two graphs onto a 
> single A4 side). My problem is that when I did this several months 
> ago, the stretching (or shrinking) worked fine. I'm now running the 
> analysis again and the quality of the text in the graph legends has 
> become quite poor when I stretch the graph.
> 
> As an aside, when I look at the original graphs produced some months
> ago, the graphs when formatted in Word (picture size) have a graph 
> size of 15.53cm x 21.38cm and they have been shrunk to 75%. The new 
> graphs have an original size of 9.31cm x 12.81cm, to get them to a 
> size I am happy with I have to extend to about 125%.
> 
> This may be the route of my problem. Is there a way for me to 
> specify the size of the graph before export in Stata so that I don't
> have to stretch?
> 
> Happy to provide more info if needed.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Tim
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