The ACTIVEX device driver only supports certain SAS/GRAPH® procedures, such as GPLOT, GCHART, and GMAP. If you use the ACTIVEX device driver with the ODS RTF destination with a SAS® or SAS/GRAPH procedure that the ACTIVEX driver does not support, garbage output will be written to the RTF file. When you open the RTF file with Microsoft Word, you will see a stream of characters across the page instead of the expected graphics output.

This problem will occur with any SAS or SAS/GRAPH procedure that the ACTIVEX device driver does not support, such as the GSLIDE, GREPLAY, and UNIVARIATE procedures.

To circumvent the problem, replace DEVICE=ACTIVEX on the GOPTIONS statement with either DEVICE=PNG or DEVICE=SASEMF.

Here is a complete list of the SAS/GRAPH procedures that the ACTIVEX device driver supports:

   GPLOT
   GCHART
   GMAP
   G3D
   GCONTOUR
   GBARLINE
   GTILE
   GAREABAR

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	SAS/GRAPH	z/OS	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Windows Vista	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Linux	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Linux for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		OpenVMS on HP Integrity	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0
		Solaris for x64	9.2 TS1M0	9.3 TS1M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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Garbage output might be written to an RTF file when using the ACTIVEX device driver to generate graphs.

Type:	Problem Note
Priority:	medium

Date Modified:	2010-04-19 09:37:40
Date Created:	2010-04-09 11:06:15