Drawing Shapes on a page

[ldenney]

 I am working on a project which requires drawing multiple shapes and creating a .pdf file. The shapes will mostly be rectangles and the dimensions for each of the shapes are varied and contained in a dataset. Within the boundary of each shape I will need to add text. I am wondering what the best way is to render the shapes to a page and print to a .pdf file. I'm currently using SAS 9.4

As an added question, I will need to maximize the shapes onto the paper. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

[WarrenKuhfeld]

SGPLOT has POLYGON and TEXT statements.  You can use them.  Here is an example of shapes but not rectangles.  Scroll down for polygon examples.

https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2017/10/19/fun-ods-graphics-drawing-rotating-impos...

You can learn about SGPLOT from the documentation and from here.

support.sas.com/documentation/prod-p/grstat/9.4/en/PDF/odsbasicg.pdf

[Jay54]

SGPLOT POLYGON statement supports any shape that you can define as a polygon, and has a builtin LABEL option to place text at center of polygon, with many options.  https://blogs.sas.com/content/graphicallyspeaking/2013/12/24/new-polygon-plot/

[Reeza]

Interesting, something like a CONSORT diagram? 

PROC CALIS can do path diagrams. 

The more details you can provide the better we can direct you. 

What version of SAS are you using?

Is this a template that needs to be designed once or are you designing a process that needs to be automoated?

There’s a macro for annotating rectangles and text that can be put can be put together to develop what you want, I suspect placement will be the issue though that’s a matter of math really. 

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings16/SAS5300-2016.pdf

[ldenney]

Hi Reeza -

I am using SAS 9.4 and I am designing a process that needs to be automated. Basically putting rectangular measurements on the page (e.g. 4 1/2 inches by 7 inches) - It's not a graph or a diagram just a series of rectangles of varying dimensions.


My SAS skills are pretty basic so any code direction is much appreciated.


Thanks for your help and response!

[ChrisNZ]

You may find (or not) Annotation easier.

The Xs and Ys from your data set are used by adding information around them, like function, color, style.

Here is what SAS/Graph annotations look like:

goptions vsize=10in hsize=8in dev=png;
ods pdf file="%sysfunc(pathname(WORK))\f.pdf" ;

data DRAW;
  length STYLE COLOR FUNCTION $8 TEXT $50;
  retain XSYS XYS '3' POS '5';

  STYLE='e'; COLOR='black';
  X=10; Y=20; FUNCTION='move'; output;  * Position in % of area ;
  X=30; Y=40; FUNCTION='bar';  output;  * Draw rectangle        ;
  X=10; Y=20; FUNCTION='bar';  output;  * Close rectangle       ;

  STYLE='e'; COLOR='black';
  X=50; Y=40; FUNCTION='move'; output;
  X=70; Y=20; FUNCTION='bar';  output;
  X=50; Y=40; FUNCTION='bar';  output;

  STYLE='"Arial"'; COLOR='red';         * Write text            ;
  X=60; Y=30; TEXT='test'; FUNCTION='label'; output;

run;
  
proc ganno annotate=DRAW;
run;

[ldenney]

Thank you! This gives me a place to start.