Increase DPI for publication

[Gustav Egede Hansen]

Hi everybody

Is there a way to increase DPI when export figures? So far, the only help I could find is to increase width:

 
 graph export mygraph.tif, width(4000)

But that does not affect the DPI.

Best,
Gustav

[Daniel Feenberg]

Just guessing, but could you export to a vector format such as pdf or eps and use other software to convert that to a tif at a higher dpi than Stata uses?

[ericmelse]

Gustav,

The solution is to increase the size of the image that you want export but decrease that in your publication, typically using a word processor like MS Word (I am not acquinted with LaTex).
But, do take care to create a PDF by printing (or exporting it) to a file with the option set to the highest resolution.
When you provide materials to a publisher, usually they require figures at a particular (large) size anyway and then that is rescaled to the format used in the - to be published - paper.

[Leonardo Guizzetti]

Just a note: if you want tif outputs, it's better in my opinion to follow advice like Daniel suggests and convert to tiff (from a scalar format) since Stata does not employ any compressed TIFF engines. As a result, hi-res tifs can easily be 50+ MB in size per image.