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.

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/* 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;