Twitter does this weird thing where it clips figures that aren’t the correct proportion. I came across this blog post<\/a> that argues that 1100×628 px is the ‘optimal’ Twitter image size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n So, how do you output Stata figures to be 1100×628?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stata allows you to use ‘xsize(##)’ and ‘ysize(##)’ to force the height and width of a figure. Assuming a 72 dpi resolution (the default resolution for monitors), that means that your width and height should be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n …place above behind the comma of your graph<\/p>\n\n\n\n In your graph export command, after the comma, place ‘width(1100)’. Or<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Twitter sizing Twitter does this weird thing where it clips figures that aren’t the correct proportion. I came across this blog post that argues that 1100×628 px is the ‘optimal’ Twitter image size. So, how do you output Stata figures to be 1100×628? Output a Stata figure in Twitter size in 2 steps Step 1: … Continue reading Output a Stata graph that won’t be clipped in Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stata-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Output a Stata figure in Twitter size in 2 steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Step 1: Force the width and height to be 15.3 x 9.0 inches<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
twoway \/\/\/\n(scatter thing otherthing) \/\/\/\n, \/\/\/\nxsize(15.3) ysize(9.0)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Step 2: Set the graph output to be 1100 pixels wide<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
graph export \"figurename.png\", replace width(1100)<\/pre>\n\n\n\n