topic Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur) in Graphics Programming

Sgplot not clear(very blur)

ayanlola2002 — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 06:48:41 GMT

i created an sgplot graph on saving into microsoft word it was not very appealing

how can i create better plots that are clearer and are appealing for international publications with sas

then the y axis needs to be show in the real value instead of exponential values

any help please?

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

Norman21 — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 13:22:06 GMT

For graphical output, I prefer PDF, as the image produced is SVG (scalable vector graphics), which appears clear even at high magnification.

More information can be found here:

https://blogs.sas.com/content/sgf/2015/05/20/ods-pdf-destination-in-sas-9-4-come-take-a-look-under-the-hood/

You can also generate stand-alone SVG files in HTML5:

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=graphref&docsetTarget=n13mzowurmt2kmn11hpaz16h5z1q.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

Ksharp — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 14:16:04 GMT

Enhance the DPI ?

ods listing image_dpi=300 ;

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

data_null__ — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:48:44 GMT

Looks like image is EMF

98\pichgoal7202\emfblip\bliptag1946676028{

I have never seen an EMF look "right" when rendered in MSWORD.

If you convert SAVEAS PDF the image may look better.

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

DanH_sas — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 00:58:08 GMT

As @data_null__ said, the default output for RTF is EMF. Another options is to set the OUTPUTFMT to PNG. The default image DPI is 200 for RTF, but you might want to increase it to 300. Here is some sample code:

ods rtf file="whatever.rtf" image_dpi=300;

ods graphics / outputfmt=png;

/* your code */

ods rtf close;

Hope this helps!

Dan

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

ballardw — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:06:15 GMT

@ayanlola2002 wrote:

i created an sgplot graph on saving into microsoft word it was not very appealing

how can i create better plots that are clearer and are appealing for international publications with sas

then the y axis needs to be show in the real value instead of exponential values

any help please?

Show the code used to generate the output as a minimum. From ODS destination to close plus any ODS OPTIONS statements in effect. Also, it may help to include the version of SAS you are using.

I have generated literally 1000's of graphs in RTF documents and have not had any of the recipients complain of image quality though I likely wouldn't use RTF for publications.

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

ayanlola2002 — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 05:30:53 GMT

@ballardw here is the code i used

and i used SAS University Edition

PROC CONTENTS DATA=WORK.IMPORT2; RUN;
proc sgplot data=WORK.IMPORT2;
series x=Date y=sales;
format Date Monyy.;
xaxis values=('1jan14'd to '1dec14'd by month );
run;
quit;

PROC CONTENTS DATA=WORK.IMPORT2; RUN;
proc sgplot data=WORK.IMPORT2;
series x=Date y=sales / markers;
format Date Monyy.;
xaxis values=('1jan15'd to '1dec15'd by month );
run;
quit;

Re: Sgplot not clear(very blur)

ballardw — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:39:54 GMT

@ayanlola2002 wrote:

@ballardw here is the code i used

and i used SAS University Edition

PROC CONTENTS DATA=WORK.IMPORT2; RUN;
proc sgplot data=WORK.IMPORT2;
series x=Date y=sales;
format Date Monyy.;
xaxis values=('1jan14'd to '1dec14'd by month );
run;
quit;

PROC CONTENTS DATA=WORK.IMPORT2; RUN;
proc sgplot data=WORK.IMPORT2;
series x=Date y=sales / markers;
format Date Monyy.;
xaxis values=('1jan15'd to '1dec15'd by month );
run;
quit;

Missing the ODS destination options and the ODS GRAPHICS options in effect.

If you aren't sending the graphic procedures to an ODS destination via ODS PDF, ODS RTF or ODS HTML then how are you getting the graphs into a document? Copy any paste has a number of issues such as the image size may be smaller than in the document and resizing will make things "blurry" because you stretch them and the DPI effectively goes down.