topic Re: Axis labels are suddenly unreadable in Graphics Programming

Axis labels are suddenly unreadable

tinycarl — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:13:33 GMT

I run this code on a weekly basis and now suddenly the y-axis is completely unreadable. Nothing has changed in the code or data so I'm not quite sure what is going on. This is happening to all the graphs this code is exporting, but I've copied the code below for just one of the graphs and included a picture of the resulting graph.

proc sgplot data = hosppast3 sganno=anno_hosp_sg;
format week_order mth3f. season season_fmt.;

title1 font='calibri/italic' height=14pt "Figure 2: Title";
title2 font='calibri/italic' height=14pt "September 29, 2019 –&dtnull";
footnote1 font=calibri justify=left "*Footnote";

vline week_order/ response=pct_hosp group=season name="pcthosp" lineattrs=(thickness=2);
keylegend "pcthosp" / location=inside position=topright noborder across=1;
xaxis type=linear values=(1 5 10 14 18 23 27 31 36 40 44 49) label="Month" labelattrs=(family=calibri) labelattrs=(weight=bold);
yaxis offsetmin=0 values=(0 to 10 by 2) label="Axis Title* Goes Here" labelattrs=(family=calibri) labelattrs=(weight=bold);

run;
quit;

ods listing close;

Re: Axis labels are suddenly unreadable

GraphGuy — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:12:09 GMT

What is the exact text that should be in this graph's y-axis label?

(this might help someone trying to reproduce the problem).

Re: Axis labels are suddenly unreadable

ballardw — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 23:07:50 GMT

You may want to provide a few records of your data and sganno data sets so that we have something to test against and to see if it may be data related. You would also have to provide the code for the custom formats used.

It would be a good idea to tell us what ODS Style is in effect as well.

One expects that you make new graphs because you have new data, so the actual data is one of the things I would want to examine.

Re: Axis labels are suddenly unreadable

Rick_SAS — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:41:01 GMT

I don't know, but let's rule out that the problem is data related. Create the graph by using the data from last week or month. Presumably the graph will still be broken.

If so, then something changed on your system? Fonts, maybe? Or an ODS style? Get rid of the FONT= option on the TITLE and FOOTNOTE statements. Does the problem still occur? If so, change to a different ODS style and rerun.

Let us know what you discover.