topic Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used in Graphics Programming

Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Emily_Zhang — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:04:24 GMT

when I use the gplot with anno, there is warning in log as follows:

Font ALBANY A could not be used.
Font Albany AMT substituted for font ALBANY A.

But I define the style='ALBANY AMT' in the anno dataset, why it is truncated and cannot distinguished? If I replace the "ALBANY AMT" with "Duplex", it can work without warning, but it is not what I want. I want the annotation dataset with "Arial" font. How can I deal with it? Thanks.

Program to produce anno:

Log:

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Jagadishkatam — Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:34:45 GMT

Please increase the length of the style variable in anno dataset. For the same please mention the style in length statement so that it will get a length of 200 and there wont be any truncation and the corresponding warning will be removed.

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Emily_Zhang — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 01:57:49 GMT

Dear Jag, Thanks for your reply. I have tried, but found that in anno dataset, the style is right. But when use proc gplot it still cannot be distinguished. I also found that the proc gplot may only distinguish the "Software Fonts"(like Duplex) other than "TrueType Fonts"(like Albany AMT).

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Jagadishkatam — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 02:06:09 GMT

ok but i believe it will still work, the only change that we could try now is keep the 'Albany AMT' in quotes in the style variable.

like below

style=" 'Alanby AMT' ";

could you please try this

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Emily_Zhang — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:40:05 GMT

Yeah, I have tried, but still same warning in log.

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

Emily_Zhang — Wed, 28 Dec 2016 03:55:40 GMT

Hi Jag, thanks for your kind help. The problem has been solved. I remove the style= from anno dataset. And add the following options:

GOPTIONS FTEXT='Albany AMT'; And it does work without any warning. I don't figure it out why the fommer one can't work, but anyway, the latter one does work. Thanks a lot !

Re: Gplot Fonts cannot be used

ballardw — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:11:12 GMT

Annotate data sets with the device procedures such as GPLOT are somewhat picky as to the NAMES of variables for the specific elements. SAS supplies a number of annotate related macros to help with generating appropriate annotate values. Look at the documentation for %Annomac and the related macros it activates.

BUT the most likely cause of your issuw was not setting the LENGTH characteristic long enough to contain the desired text.

If your data set FINAL happened to have a variable named style and the length was 8 characters then when you use: Style='Albany AMT'; the value gets truncated because the previously declared length will only hold "Albany A"

So try

data anno;

length style $ 20;

set final;

etc. to set the length for the STYLE variable before reading in the data set FINAL.