help for hlp2winpdf

Title

hlp2winpdf --- Prints a list of Stata help files to pdf in Windows Environment

Syntax

hlp2winpdf, cdname(command_names) [replace]

Description

hlp2winpdf prints help files for any Stata commands to portable document format (pdf) in Windows Environment.
The conversion is done via Ghostscript which must be installed for hlp2winpdf to work. A copy of Ghostscript can
be found at http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/. The DOS window will open and close during the conversion process.
All generated .pdf files are placed in the working directory.

N.B.: Make sure the help files to be converted are not open in the Viewer.

Options

Options

cdname(command_names) specifies a list of command names whose help files need to be converted.

replace overwrites existing .pdf files.

Author

P. Wilner Jeanty, Dept. of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics,

The Ohio State University

Email to jeanty.1@osu.edu.

Also see

Online: hlp2pdf if installed