Stata14 export results to PDF

[Timbo Slice]

Dear community,

I am new to STATA and to this forum as well. I am in the process of familiarising myself with STATA (14) but now face a problem that seems very trivial but I cannot find the solution for the life of me. I simply would like to export all the output that appears in my results window as a PDF document. There seems to be no button to click on in order to do this. The translate command does not help me. I read the help translate file but cant find out what I am doing wrong or what I should type as command.

Can please somebody advise? It seems like something that should not be that hard to do.

Any help would be really appreciated!

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Timbo:
welcome to the Stata (not STATA please, as per FAQ) forum.
You can simply copy and paste your Stata session on a Do-file and then print all the stuff via the Print command available scrolling down the File menu in the Do-file editor.
If you have a .pdf Printing option installed on your desk/laptop the job is done.

[William Lisowski]

As does Carlo, I typically created PDFs using the macOS Print dialog box to save the "prinout" as a PDF rather than send it to the printer. I cannot speak for Windows or Linux.

But since today seems to be my day for answering questions about the translate command, here is an example. The tools you need are described in

help log
help translate

I run this code from the Do-file editor windows.

log using "~/Downloads/pretend.smcl", replace
sysuse auto, clear
summarize weight length
log close
translate "~/Downloads/pretend.smcl" "~/Downloads/pretend.pdf", replace

This is what I see in the Results window.

. log using "~/Downloads/pretend.smcl", replace
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      name:  <unnamed>
       log:  /Users/lisowskiw/Downloads/pretend.smcl
  log type:  smcl
 opened on:   3 Jun 2020, 12:18:41

. sysuse auto, clear
(1978 Automobile Data)

. summarize weight length

    Variable |        Obs        Mean    Std. Dev.       Min        Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
      weight |         74    3019.459    777.1936       1760       4840
      length |         74    187.9324    22.26634        142        233

. log close
      name:  <unnamed>
       log:  /Users/lisowskiw/Downloads/pretend.smcl
  log type:  smcl
 closed on:   3 Jun 2020, 12:18:41
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

. translate "~/Downloads/pretend.smcl" "~/Downloads/pretend.pdf", replace

.
end of do-file

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This is a screenshot of the top of the PDF (screenshot so you don't have to open a link to see it).

[Timbo Slice]

Thank you guys!