topic Export gchart pie graph as pdf in SAS Programming

Export gchart pie graph as pdf

Anita_n — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 10:14:27 GMT

Hi,

I wish to export the pie chart I created as pdf. I used the following code.

goptions reset=all border cback=white
         htitle=5pt gsfname=grafout gsfmode=replace device=pdf;
filename  grafout 'mypath\mydata.pdf';

legend1 label=none
        shape=bar(4,1.5)
        position=(top left)
        offset=(5,)
        across=4
        mode=share;

proc gchart data=mydata ;
    pie var1 / sumvar=var2
	            noheading
                     coutline=black
				other=0
				value= inside
			         angle=30
				ascending
				percent= arrow
				jstyle
			      legend=legend1;
			
run;
quit;

When I run the above code, it says the data has been written to: \\AppData\Local\Temp\SAS Temporary Files\_TD5700_mm-b4_\gchart.png.

Any help?

Re: Export gchart pie graph as pdf

FreelanceReinh — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 11:47:19 GMT

Hi @Anita_n,

My SAS 9.4 under Windows does produce the PDF file with your code, but this is because I use ODS Listing as the default destination and not HTML. I can reproduce the issue (only PNG is created and a warning " Unsupported device 'PDF' for HTML destination. ..." is written to the log) if I change the settings in Tools → Options → Preferences... → Results from "Create Listing" (only) to "Create HTML" (only).

So you can either tick the check box "Create listing" in the Preferences window and deselect "Create HTML" or submit

ods _all_ close;
ods listing;

to close the HTML and possibly other ODS destinations and open the Listing destination.

Re: Export gchart pie graph as pdf

Anita_n — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 12:16:18 GMT

Okay, thanks for that. I will try that