Diverging PNG and PDF graphs on Linux machines

[Marc Rain]

SOLVED!
So far I've tried with ubuntu 20.04 and Manjaro (updated on April the 3rd). The issue seems to affect only text, such as legends and axis labels.

sysuse uslifeexp, clear
line le_male le_female year
graph export /tmp/test.pdf
graph export /tmp/test.png

The above code produces the following results. (PDF on the left, and PNG on the right).

As you can see, the legend on the PDF version is weird. It is not a matter of size, because a vsmall legend will reduce it's overall size, but it will also be out of bounds.

Anyone facing a similar issue?
I believe it might be a problem with a missing font. but I don't which font Stata uses for plotting or how to change it.

possibly (un)related and sill unsolved: https://www.statalist.org/forums/for...aro-arch-based

[Marc Rain]

Okay... a little more searching and I found the issue... it is indeed the font.

graph set window fontface "Arial"

The above command does work around the issue... or installing Microsoft fonts should also fix. Example for ubuntu:

sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer

Thats it.