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Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

SASGeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:17:13 GMT

Hi there,

I'm trying to duplicate Pete Lund's approach to embed a histogram in a pdf PROC REPORT (247-2011: You Did That Report in SAS®!? - The Power of the ODS PDF Destination) but instead of the histogram, I'm getting 'g'. It looks fine on the HTML version, but not on the pdf version. Can anyone help me? I've included an Excel sample if that helps. This is also the first of 4 proc reports on a legal size paper and I'm using absolute layout (but haven't gotten to that part yet!).

Thanks!

Here's my code:

data uc1;

INPUT DIVISION $ No pct_n_total Yes pct_y_total ;

LENGTH DIVISION $ 1 No 8 pct_n_total 8 Yes 8 pct_y_total 8;

FORMAT

DIVISION $CHAR1.

No COMMA12.2

pct_n_total COMMA12.2

Yes COMMA12.2

pct_y_total COMMA12.2;

datalines;

a 79354 0.4685 90034 0.5315

b 94541 0.6260 56479 0.3740

c 10635 0.1183 79255 0.8817

d 40340 0.4720 45118 0.5280

;

run;

ods pdf file = /home/me/file.pdf style=smaller STARTPAGE=NEVER;

footnote j=c "Page ^{thispage} of ^{lastpage}";

proc report data= uc1 nowd missing split= '~'

style(report) = [cellspacing = 2 cellpadding =2 rules=groups frame=hsides]

style(header) = [fontsize=6pt vjust = top]

style(column)=[fontsize=6pt];

Title "uc1";

DIVISION

pct_n_total

Yes

pct_y_total

bar;

define unit / 'DIVISION' ;

define No / 'No' format = comma15.0;

define pct_n_total / '% No' format = percent10.2;

define Yes / '% Yes' format = comma15.0;

define pct_y_total / '% Yes' format = percent10.2

style(column) = [borderrightcolor=black borderrightwidth=.5pt];

define bar / 'PROGRESS' style(column) = [cellwidth=75mm font_size=4pt

font_face=Webdings vjust=middle

just=left cellpadding=0];

compute bar / char length=20;

barsize = round(pct_y_total.sum*50);

if barsize gt 0 then bar = repeat('67'x,barsize);

endcomp;

run;

ods layout end;

ods pdf close;

Thank you!

Re: Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

Kathryn_SAS — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:36:34 GMT

Your code works for me after I add COLUMN and change Unit to Division on the DEFINE statement.

Revised code:

ods listing close;
ods pdf file = 'file.pdf'    STARTPAGE=NEVER;
footnote j=c "Page ^{thispage} of ^{lastpage}"; 
 
proc report data= uc1 nowd missing split= '~' 
style(report) = [cellspacing = 2 cellpadding =2 rules=groups frame=hsides]
style(header) = [fontsize=6pt vjust = top]
style(column)=[fontsize=6pt]; 
Title "uc1";
column DIVISION
       No
   pct_n_total
   Yes
   pct_y_total
   bar;
define division / 'DIVISION' ;
define No / 'No' format = comma15.0;
define pct_n_total / '% No' format = percent10.2;
define Yes / '% Yes' format = comma15.0;
define pct_y_total / '% Yes' format = percent10.2
style(column) = [borderrightcolor=black borderrightwidth=.5pt];
define bar / 'PROGRESS'  style(column) = [cellwidth=75mm font_size=4pt
font_face=Webdings vjust=middle 
just=left cellpadding=0];
 
compute bar / char length=20;
barsize = round(pct_y_total.sum*50);
if barsize gt 0 then bar = repeat('67'x,barsize);
endcomp;
run; 

ods listing;
ods pdf close;

If you continue to have problems, please send your log.

Re: Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

SASGeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:26:59 GMT

Thank you. Actually, the real problem was that my SAS EG only accepts LATIN1 encoding so once I changed to fontfamily = 'Courier New' and then use unicode 2588, it worked great. Thanks!

Re: Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

Tom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:21:02 GMT

So you will need to make the calculated BAR variable three times as long (150 byte length) because U+2588 is stored as the three byte sequence 'E29688'x in UTF-8 encoding.

Also you should subtract 1 from the integer passed to the REPEAT() function. It helps to think of that second argument to the REPEAT() function as the number of EXTRA copies of the string to add.

data uc1;
  LENGTH DIVISION $1 ;
  INPUT DIVISION No pct_n_total Yes pct_y_total;
  FORMAT No Yes comma12. pct_n_total pct_y_total percent10.2;
datalines;
a 79354 0.4685 90034 0.5315
b 94541 0.6260 56479 0.3740
c 10635 0.1183 79255 0.8817
d 40340 0.4720 45118 0.5280
;

proc print;
run;

footnote j=c "Page ^{thispage} of ^{lastpage}"; 
Title "uc1";
 
proc report data= uc1 nowd missing split= '~' 
  style(report) = [cellspacing = 2 cellpadding =2 rules=groups frame=hsides]
  style(header) = [fontsize=6pt vjust = top]
  style(column)=[fontsize=6pt]
; 
column
  DIVISION
  No
  pct_n_total
  Yes
  pct_y_total
  bar
;
define division / 'DIVISION' ;
define No / 'No' format = comma15.0;
define pct_n_total / '% No' format = percent10.2;
define Yes / '% Yes' format = comma15.0;
define pct_y_total / '% Yes' format = percent10.2
  style(column) = [borderrightcolor=black borderrightwidth=.5pt]
;
define bar / 'PROGRESS'
  style(column) =
   [cellwidth=75mm font_size=4pt
    font_face='Courier New' vjust=middle 
    just=left cellpadding=0
   ]
;
compute bar / char length=150;
  barsize = round(pct_y_total.sum*50);
  if barsize gt 0 then bar = repeat('E29688'x,barsize-1);
endcomp;
run;

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Re: Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

Ksharp — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:32:56 GMT

data a;
input a $ actual goal   ;
v=actual/goal;
format v percent7.1;
cards;
a 850 1200
b 150 1500
c 450 1600 
d 650 1000
;
proc sql;
create table _a as
select *,max(v) as max from a;

create table want as
select * from _a
union all
select 'TOTALS',sum(actual),sum(goal),sum(actual)/sum(goal),. from _a
;
quit;


%let path=c:\temp\;  *the path name stored image;
%macro get_bar(value=,imagename=);
data _null_;
set _a;
if _n_=1 then call symputx('max',max);
run;
ods _all_ close;
ods listing gpath="&path." image_dpi=300;
ods graphics /noborder reset=index width=100px height=15px imagename="&imagename" outputfmt=png;
proc sgplot data=_a noborder noautolegend ;
where a="&value.";
hbarparm category=a response=v/ filltype=GRADIENT displaybaseline=off
 barwidth=1 outlineattrs=(color=green) fillattrs=(color=white) fillendcolor=green;
scatter x=max y=a/datalabel=v labelstrip  datalabelpos=left datalabelattrs=(size=25) markerattrs=(size=0);
xaxis min=0 max=&max. offsetmin=0 offsetmax=0 display=none;
yaxis offsetmin=0 offsetmax=0 display=none;
run;
%mend;
data _null_;
set a;
call execute(catt('%nrstr(%get_bar)(value=',a,',imagename=',a,')'));
run;

ods pdf file='c:\temp\want.pdf' style=htmlblue dpi=300;
proc report data=want nowd style(header)=header ;
column ('Region' a  actual goal v dummy);
define a/display;
define dummy/computed '%Covered' ;
define v/display noprint;
compute dummy/character length=10 ;
 dummy=' ';
 if a ne 'TOTALS' then call define(_col_,'style',"style={preimage='c:\temp\"||strip(a)||".png'}");
else do;dummy=vvalue(v);call define(_row_,'style','style=header');call define(_col_,'style','style=header{just=r}');end;
endcomp;
run;
ods pdf close;

/*****Excel 中加入图片：
https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2017/02/20/tips-for-using-the-ods-excel-destination/
***/

Re: Trying to embed a histogram in PROC REPORT not yielding expected results for ODS PDF

SASGeek — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:02:31 GMT

Thank you so much. That worked better!