Problem Note 34600: Duplicate titles and footnotes might appear on graphics output written to PDF when using a SAS® SG procedure or ODS Graphics
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Duplicate titles and footnotes might appear on graphics output when using a SAS SG procedure (such as SGPANEL) or ODS Graphics and the ODS PDF destination. Each title and/or footnote appears once inside the graph and once at the top or bottom of the page. No errors or warnings are written to the SAS® log when this occurs.
To circumvent the problem, do one of the following:
- Use the ODS RTF destination instead of ODS PDF. The problem does not occur with ODS RTF.
- Use PROC REPORT to generate the title on the graph instead of using a TITLE statement. Please see the Full Code tab for an example.
- Beginning with SAS® 9.3, include the NOGTITLE and NOGFOOTNOTE options in the ODS PDF statement.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | SAS/GRAPH | OpenVMS on HP Integrity | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 |
| Linux for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Linux | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.2 TS1M0 | |||
| z/OS | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.2 TS1M0 | 9.4 TS1M5 | ||
In this example, PROC REPORT is used with ODS PDF to generate a title above the graph instead of using a TITLE statement.
/* Define a data set with a variable containing the title text. */
data test;
title_text="Sample Title";
output;
run;
options nonumber nodate center;
/* Be sure to specify the STARTPAGE=NO option */
/* on the ODS PDF statement. */
ods listing close;
ods pdf file="file.pdf" notoc startpage=no;
title;
/* Use PROC REPORT to generate the title. */
proc report nowd noheader style(report)={rules=none frame=void outputwidth=100%};
column title_text;
define title_text / style={just=c};
run;
/* Now generate the graph. */
proc sgplot data=sashelp.class;
vbar age / response=height;
run;
ods pdf close;
ods listing;
| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2009-02-10 08:58:21 |
| Date Created: | 2009-01-26 15:20:58 |