Debugging a crashed session

lbarwick — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:32:01 GMT

Morning,

I am using ODS LAYOUT to generate a PDF report with several pages. At the top of each page I have defined a header area as follows:

ods region height=1in style={background=VLIGB };
 ods text = " ";

ods region y = 0.35 in;
 ods text = "^{style[background=VLIGB foreground=white font_size=16pt font_face='arial' just=c textdecoration=underline font_weight=bold]Investigator Request for Materials}";

ods region x = 0.15 in
		   y = 0.035 in;
 ods text = '^{style[preimage="&preimage"]}';

The preimage macro variable (&preimage) value is a directory path to a logo .png file on my company's network. As I mentioned above there are multiple pages I am configuring for this report so I have defined this header information for each page. The problem I am running into is that SAS crashes when I use the preimage on more than one page. I will get the popup that says "sas.exe has stopped working - Check online for solution, close the program, or Debug the program". If I use it on just one page, the program runs just fine. If I remove the ods region/ods text statements that define the preimage, the program also runs just fine. Additionally, the program is nearly identical to another program I have that calls the preimage multiple times and that program runs fine as well.

I have tried outputting my log and viewing the results I don't see any errors or warnings, all macros are resolving as they should, etc. so at this point I am stuck on how to troubleshoot this further. Any ideas?

Re: Debugging a crashed session

SuryaKiran — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:04:31 GMT

Hi,

Are you missing escape character.

ods escapechar='^';

Did you have right size image file for the header?

Re: Debugging a crashed session

lbarwick — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:13:24 GMT

Yes I have defined my escapechar and the image size is fine. As I mentioned, the output looks fine when I include the image on just one of my layout pages, its when I try to add the image to the other pages that SAS crashes. I have opened a track with Tech Support to help.

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