SAS 9.2 Send to PDF Bugs and Workarounds

[DavidPhillips2]

I am trying to send the contents of a URL portlet to a PDF and I am running into a number of bugs in 9.2.

Is there a way to use ods regions to display pdf text and then graphs side by side without having a page in-between?  I found a way to display the graphs side by side but it causes a page break.

Proc Report Does not seem to have odd formatting in pdf format however proc tabulate with multiple group columns does.  I converted my tabular displays over to proc report.

[DavidPhillips2]

I am trying to follow page 3 of

http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings14/SAS330-2014.pdf

I have a basic output statement

ods layout gridded columns=2 column_gutter=0in advance=bygroup;

     ods region;

          proc gchart data=enrollment;                                                                                                      

          vbar location /                                                                                                      

          sumvar=students_enrolled

          legend=legend1 outside=sum                                                                                                       

          run;                                                                                                                                   

          quit;

     ods region;

          proc gchart data=enrollment;                                                                                                      

          vbar location /                                                                                                      

          sumvar=students_enrolled

          legend=legend1 outside=sum                                                                                                       

          run;                                                                                                                                   

          quit;

ods layout end;

and get ERROR: REGION= found but no LAYOUT open for the destination.

It acts liked gridded is not available in SAS 9.2.  Am I doing something basic wrong here or is gridded not available in 9.2?

[DavidPhillips2]

I looked at

ods pdf;

  ods layout start;

  ods region x=0pct y=0pct width=50pct ;

  proc print data=sashelp.class;

  run;

  ods region x=50pct y=0pct width=50pct;

  proc means data=sashelp.class;

  run;

  ods layout end;

  ods pdf close;

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I can create multiple rows by using multiple layout commands.

For headings

ods escapechar='^';

ods pdf text="^S={font=('Arial',13pt,bold) just=center}MyHeadingText";

This article shows how to remove the boarder created around pdf text

45762 - How to remove the borders around the text generated by ODS PDF TEXT=

proc template;
  define style styles.mystyle;
  parent=styles.normalprinter;
  class usertext from usertext /
  bordertopcolor=white
  borderbottomcolor=white
  borderleftcolor=white
  borderrightcolor=white
  just=c;
  end;
run;

options nodate nonumber ;
title;
ods pdf file="ods_pdf_text.pdf" style=styles.mystyle notoc startpage=no;

[DavidPhillips2]

Oddly the below code produces a text line on the first line of one page.  Then the two gcharts are displayed side by side on the next.  I tried adding height to the regions but it does not take effect in SAS 9.2.  The gridded feature is documented as a 9.2 feature but appears to be broken in 9.2.

ods pdf style=styles.pdfStyle startpage=no;

ods escapechar='^';

ods layout start;

ods region width=100pct x=0pct;                                                                              

ods pdf text="^S={font=('Arial',13pt,bold) just=center}mytitle

ods layout end;

ods layout start;

ods region x=0pct y=0pct width=50pct;

            /*gchart1*/

ods region x=50pct width=50pct;

            /*gchart2*/

ods layout end;

I also found that when I created a sgpanel that takes up more than one page in a pdf that the sgpanel does not show up.

Start page is supposed to handle this.

https://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings09/043-2009.pdf

"STARTPAGE= The STARTPAGE= option is another easy option that controls the placement of output. The syntax is simple. In the ODS statement, type STARTPAGE=YES|NO|NOW to invoke the option. Let’s go through all three options and explain how each of them works. The first option—YES—is the default. Invoking STARTPAGE=YES inserts a new page at the beginning of each procedure. It’s basically the normal behavior you see when you don’t set the option. When a procedure's output is laid out, a new page will be invoked at the end. The second option is NO. When you invoke STARTPAGE=NO, this means there will be no page insertions before each procedure. A new page will occur only when the current page is filled. The third option is NOW. This option forces the immediate insertion of a new page into the output."

[DavidPhillips2]

I found that I can display a long Sgpanel if I remove ‘layout’ from around it.