help for graphexportpdf

Improved support for saving graphs as pdf

graphexportpdf newfilename[, dropeps]

Description

graphexportpdf is an alternative to the standard graph export
syntax, which produces unsatisfactory pdf files in Mac and does not support
pdf for Linux or Solaris at all. graphexportpdf provides superior pdf
output for UNIX-like systems (sorry, no Windows support) by first saving as
eps then translating to pdf.

Remarks

The program works by first using Stata's excellent support for eps,
then using the shell to convert eps to pdf. Because it relies on the shell
for the latter step, the ado-file only runs on UNIX-like systems (Mac, Linux,
Solaris). If run on a Windows computer it will just produce an eps.

"Replace" is assumed so both newfilename.eps and newfilename.pdf
will be overwritten if they already exist.

This command runs slower than using "graph export newfilename.pdf"
on Stata for Mac (the only version that supports that syntax), but the output
is much more attractive, especially for line graphs and kernel density plots.

Options

dropeps specifies that newfilename.eps (which is created as an
intermediate step) will be deleted.

Examples

. graphexportpdf pricempg dropeps

. sysuse auto, clear

. twoway scatter price mpg

. graphexportpdf pricempg, dropeps

Author

Gabriel Rossman, UCLA

rossman@soc.ucla.edu

Also see

On-line:
help for graph export,
help for shell