Graph Titles and Axes no Longer Automatically Aligned

[Jeremy Lebow]

In the past, any graphs that I exported automatically had centered titles and axes. This suddenly changed, any graphs I export look like the below image, with the titles not centered and the axis labels off-center.

This happens for any type of twoway graph, with any scheme and with any dataset. Running Stata 16.1 for Mac, fully updated and that didn't change anything. Has anyone else had this problem?

This is the code that generates that graph:
twoway line y x, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")

Many thanks.

[William Lisowski]

My experiment

sysuse auto, clear
sort weight
twoway line mpg weight, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")

on my system

. about

Stata/SE 16.1 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
Revision 14 Oct 2020

did not show the artifacts shown in your graph.

[Jeremy Lebow]

Hi William,
Thanks, I have exactly replicated your code and continue to have the same problem. If anyone else has any insights it would be much appreciated. "About" also generates the same on my system:
Stata/SE 16.1 for Mac (64-bit Intel) Revision 14 Oct 2020

[William Lisowski]

I want to revisit your original question. In post #1 you wrote

any graphs I export look like the below image, with the titles not centered and the axis labels off-center.

Perhaps I did not duplicate exactly what you did. I ran my code, it displayed nicely on screen, and when I saved it as a PNG that I posted here, it still displayed nicely.

Today I realized you used "export" which perhaps refers to the graph export command. But when I ran the following code the results were unchanged: it displayed nicely on screen, and the PNG displayed nicely. This really isn't a surprise: I expect that graph export is how the save menu is implemented for graphs.

sysuse auto, clear
sort weight
twoway line mpg weight, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")
graph export exported_graph.png, as(png) replace

Does this precisely match what you're doing, or are you using graph export to create your exported graph in some other format?

[Jeremy Lebow]

Your code precisely matches what I am doing (I can copy-paste your code directly). The error occurs at the "twoway" command. Graph export simply saves the graph as it is produced by "twoway". The
export" component is not important, sorry if that was misleading.

[William Lisowski]

Since you are running the latest version of Stata, I suggest you contact Stata Technical Services for their advice and assistance. This is really inexplicable. In the September update a Mac-specific change was made to graph export (as described in the output of help whatsnew) but that would seem to have no bearing on your problem. Still ... .

With that said, a do-it-yourself task that they will likely recommend is to run the Stata Installation Qualification Test (IQT), which verifies that Stata has been installed properly and that any subsequent software updates are also installed properly. Perhaps something went awry in your installation of the September update.

https://www.stata.com/support/instal...qualification/

[Chinh Nguyen (StataCorp)]

Enter graph set and look at your font preferences for the graph window. The default is Helvetica.

[Tahreen Zahra]

Hi, I have a similar issue with my twoway graphs. I ran this code:

 
 sysuse auto, clear sort weight twoway line mpg weight, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")

I have also tried the Stata Installation Qualification Test (IQT) and it passed.

Is there a solution to this issue?

[Nick Cox]

The code you tried is

sysuse auto, clear 
sort weight 
twoway line mpg weight, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")

which doesn't produce anything weird on my set-up (Stata 19.50, Windows). And this code should have worked almost identically since Stata 8.

You may need to contact StataCorp Technical Services with information such as Stata version, operating system, graph scheme in use.

[Justin Niakamal]

I've had this issue when trying to use an unsupported font.

graph set window fontface "Bad Name"
sysuse auto.dta, clear
sort weight
twoway line mpg weight, title("This is the Title") xtitle("XTitle") ytitle("YTitle")

To see the list of supported fonts, you should right click on the graph and select "Preferences". There will be a font drop-down box in the dialog that will list all the supported fonts.