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Text background is white and not the background color specified in an ODS region

ghosh — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 03:16:26 GMT

I am stumped trying to display text in an ODS layout region in a shaded area.
The problem is the text is displaying on a white background rather than on the color specified as the background color
as shown in the attached picture.

ods _all_ close;
options nonumber nodate orientation=landscape papersize=tabloid nocenter
	leftmargin=2cm rightmargin=2cm topmargin=1cm bottommargin=1.5cm;

ods escapechar='^';
ods pdf file="fname.pdf" dpi=300 notoc;

/*absolute*/
ods layout start  
  style={bordercolor=black borderstyle=solid borderwidth=.5pt};

ods region  x=0.0cm y=0.0cm height=0.5cm width=25cm
	 style={bordercolor=black borderstyle=solid borderwidth=.5pt background=BWH});

ods pdf text="^S={just=c vjust=c height=10pt}Highlights";

The destination is PDF, I am using SAS 9.4_M3

Any suggestions how I can fix this problem? The relevant parts of the code is below.

Thanks

Re: Text background is white and not the background color specified in an ODS region

SuzanneDorinski — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:41:37 GMT

The PDF destination uses the Pearl style by default. The background color is white by default, so you need to specify the color you want. Add BACKGROUND=BWH to the style portion of the ODS PDF TEXT statement.

ods _all_ close;

options nonumber nodate orientation=landscape papersize=tabloid nocenter
	leftmargin=2cm rightmargin=2cm topmargin=1cm bottommargin=1.5cm;

ods escapechar='^';

ods pdf file="/folders/myfolders/ODS PDF/fname.pdf" dpi=300 notoc;

/*absolute*/
ods layout start  
  style={bordercolor=black borderstyle=solid borderwidth=.5pt};

ods region  x=0.0cm y=0.0cm height=0.5cm width=25cm
	 style={bordercolor=black borderstyle=solid borderwidth=.5pt background=BWH};

ods pdf text="^S={just=c vjust=c height=10pt background=bwh}Highlights";

ods layout end;

ods pdf close;

Specify background color in ODS PDF TEXT statement to match color of ODS REGION

Re: Text background is white and not the background color specified in an ODS region

ghosh — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 17:58:28 GMT

Suzanne,
Thank you! However, if I have another box with a slightly different color, how I would I handle that?
Aroop

Re: Text background is white and not the background color specified in an ODS region

SuzanneDorinski — Sat, 19 Jan 2019 18:06:06 GMT

Use the slightly different color of the other box.