Compiling as pdf

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On Linux and Stata 15, have a working latex distribution (and pandoc) and commands like

markstat using test, pdf 

produce pdf's.

Using stmd, I was able to create a word document (although the markstat header syntax wasn't honored) using

stmd test.stmd, replace saving(test.docx)

but the pdf produced by

stmd test.stmd, replace saving(test.pdf)

wasn't able to be opened by any pdf reader I had access to (it didn't have a size of 0, so something was put in it).

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Upon further inspection, when I try opening the file this error appears:

file type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported

The docx file is of type text/html. Maybe I am mistaken that stmd can output Word and pdf files, since no matter the extension it appears that html code is in the file. But based on this comment on the stata message board it should be possible since pandoc is installed. Maybe it requires a secondary step in terminal to invoke pandoc on the html output?

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Right, stmd is built on top of dyndoc, so in Stata 15 it only creates HTML files. You should also be able to covert stmd documents to Markdown, and then use Pandoc (there is a separate Stata package for this) to go to PDF, similar to what markstat and rmarkdown do. With Stata 16 you should be able to produce Word documents directly, although I have not had a chance to test this yet. From: RobH [mailto:notifications@github.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 6:50 AM To: Hemken/stmd Cc: Subscribed Subject: Re: [Hemken/stmd] Compiling as pdf (#1) Upon further inspection, when I try opening the file this error appears: file type plain text document (text/plain) is not supported The docx file is of type text/html. Maybe I am mistaken that stmd can output Word and pdf files. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<#1?email_source=notifications&email_token=ACYBME47NBE7AO5ROAKXLT3QHZFQLA5CNFSM4IS6IZRKYY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOD5X53PQ#issuecomment-527424958>, or mute the thread<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ACYBME3JZDG6JKEHDUYEIDDQHZFQLANCNFSM4IS6IZRA>.

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Thanks. Closing.