topic Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller in Graphics Programming

Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

PhilfromGermany — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:45:01 GMT

Hello everyone,

first off thank you for looking into this topic and for trying to help me. I am in the process generating a few reports. Those reports consist of a proc print that creates tables and a proc boxplot that is supposed to generate a boxplot. Everything is saved into the one PDF. My problem is:

When I add footnotes and titles to the proc boxplot, the size of the box plot diagram shrinks exponentially, inspite of lots of white space below the box plot. Why can't the title and footnote statements just use up the white space above/below the box plot?

I attached the code for the proc boxplot statement and the template that goes with it. Thank you for your help!

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

ballardw — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:33:49 GMT

Try NOGTITLE and NOGFOOTNOTE options on the ODS PDF statement. Default of GTITLE makes titles part of the graphic displays usually resulting in reduced space for the plots.

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

PhilfromGermany — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 09:25:59 GMT

Hi ballardw, thank you for your response. Using the NOGFOOTNOTE and NOGTITLE options didn't change anything

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

Jay54 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:59:59 GMT

Your best bet would be to submit a problem report to Tech Support using the link in the bottom page footer.

Or, attach the FULL WORKING program, with data and output to this thread, and we can try debugging it.

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

ballardw — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:01:21 GMT

Maybe try options on the ODS GRAPHICS statement. You can set explicit height/width for graph sizes and Scale/noscale to allow/prevent text, such as titles and footnotes to change with the resized graph.

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

PhilfromGermany — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:40:51 GMT

@Sanjay Thank you for your response. Submitting the data is not an option.

@ballardw I ended up replacing the PROC BOXPLOT with PROC GPLOT. I no longer have to specify a graphics dump using PROC GPLOT. However, I ran into another problem using #byval(var) in the title statement ()

Thanks for everyone's help.

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

Rick_SAS — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:48:36 GMT

You don't have to submit real (proprietary) data. Submit fake data that demonstrates the problem.

Re: Title and Footer statements make box plot smaller

Jay54 — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:57:49 GMT

As a general note for future queries, it is much easier for other people who are not familir with your project to help you if you include a (smaller or reduced) working program with fake or simulated data that will demnostrate the problem.