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Tweak the note on images in stata.
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bloodearnest committed Dec 20, 2024
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We currently package version 16.1, with `datacheck`, `safetab`, and `safecount` libraries installed; when installed, new libraries will appear [in the stata-docker GitHub repository](https://github.com/opensafely-core/stata-docker/tree/master/libraries).

!!! note
Stata can only produce very limited image formats on Linux, none of which
are in the approved list above. To output an image from Stata, you can
output as eps and use the convert tool:
Stata can only produce very limited image formats on Linux, only eps, tiff,
and uncompressed svg. None of these are preferred formats for images to be
output checked. So, we suggest that you generate images in eps format, and
then convert them to .png using the convert tool:

```stata
graph export "output/graph.eps", replace
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