putpdf not capturing output of commands

[Mary Putt]

I used the following code copied from the helpfile to try to create a pdf file. The file (example.pdf) shows up. However it is missing the output of the commands. It has "Report on 1978 automobiles" as content and that's all. e.g. the summarize mpg output is missing. Where am I going wrong?

Thanks in advance.

use https://www.stata-press.com/data/r17/auto, replace

putpdf begin

putpdf paragraph, font("Courier",20) halign(center)
putpdf text ("Report on 1978 automobiles")

summarize mpg

return list
putpdf save "/Users/mputt/Box/chibe/sri/example.pdf"

[Andrew Musau]

The command does not capture what you type and any output that appears in the Results window. If you want to capture the output of summarize, for example, see

help putpdf table

and for text

help putpdf paragraph

On the other hand, if you want a log file of what appears on the Results Window, see

help log