I'm having trouble making everthing into one PDF file. When I copy the graph from STATA into word, it looks okay, but once I make it into a PDF file there's an extra gray area that was NOT in the original graph. Can I just upload the extra original .gph file in case the one in the PDF doensn't look right? Also can I just copy and paste our log file into the word file to print it into the PDF file? I don't have a separate PDF file converter.
Hey Janet, if you share your graph commands we could be of help. However I wonder if this stata message board conversation is pertinent to your problem...check it out and see if it is pertinent!
thx, Anjana
http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-04/msg00767.html
Can you try saving your word file as a PDF?
This was my final graph command:
. //graphing albumin vs walktime
. twoway (scatter time1 albumin) (lfitci time1 albumin) ///
> , ytitle(Walk time (seconds)) xtitle(Albumin (g/dL)) ///
> title(Patient walk time as a function of albumin level) ///
> caption(p<0.001, position(2) ring(0)) ///
> name(final_scatter, replace) ///
> saving("final_scatter.gph", replace)
the graph looks the way I want it to in the STATA window, I then copy that to word, and it even looks fine in word, but there's an extra gray box in the final PDF when I save the word file as a PDF file. It doesn't completely mess up essential components, so right now I have both the pdf and the original graph file uploaded to show the difference, but I can't figure out why it does that.
I tried some of the things in the link Anjana sent but it just messed up other things
Have you tried exporting the graph as a .pdf directly from stata?