Margins and aspect ratio

[Joao Pugliese]

When using aspectratio(0.4), even zeroing margins inside the graphregion() command doesn't remove the extra top and bottom margins.

If you are dealing with a .eps figure, this is especially annoying because you require some fancy software to manually remove margins.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem? I know that aspectratio doesn't change the graph size, but isn't there any user-written command that may adjust this?

Example code to generate an empty graph with top-bottom margins:

gen z =0
gen y=0
twoway (line y z, aspectratio(0.4)), graphregion(margin(0 0 0 0))

[Joao Pugliese]

No solution for this?

I'm resorting to CorelDraw to remove whitespaces right now... There must be a way to remove this whitespace in Stata...

[Maarten Buis]

You gave up quickly. Remember that there are different time zones. You asked the question at 20:13 my time (I was bringing my kids to bed) and gave up on 22:41 (I was putting away the weekly groceries I just bought). So I would not give up for at least 24 hours, so people from all time zones could have chance to see your question.

This is quite a specific question that touches on the inner workings of Stata. It is possible that someone on this list knows the answer (I don't), but Stata's techsupport is more likely to be able to help you: https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/t...-tech-support/

[John Mullahy]

Try this

twoway (line y z, aspectratio(0.4)), plotregion(margin(zero))

[Joao Pugliese]

You gave up quickly. Remember that there are different time zones. You asked the question at 20:13 my time (I was bringing my kids to bed) and gave up on 22:41 (I was putting away the weekly groceries I just bought). So I would not give up for at least 24 hours, so people from all time zones could have chance to see your question.

This is quite a specific question that touches on the inner workings of Stata. It is possible that someone on this list knows the answer (I don't), but Stata's techsupport is more likely to be able to help you: https://www.stata.com/support/faqs/t...-tech-support/

Hi Maarten, thanks so much for your suggestion. I'll contact the technical support.

Do note though that my original posting was on Sep. 18, so I actually waited 2 weeks before bumping the post.

[Ana ML]

Hello Statalist community,

Did you ever figured out how to delete that space /reduce the margin between the categories and the plot region after changing the aspect ratio?
I've been playing around with the different plot region and graph region options and with the graph editor, but I can't find a way to solve it.

Thank you,
Ana

[John Mullahy]

Re: #6 Did you try the option

plotregion(margin(zero))

It worked for me with the example given in #1.