I know I'm replying to an old thread, but this happened to me recently, and I think the version of Word makes a difference,
I used SAS 9.3 to produce some graphics in RTF, to include in a Word document in 2014. The Word document was eventually converted to PDF for submission to the proceedings of a conference. The conversion to PDF was fine.
Now I'm using the same syntax in SAS 9.4 to produce some graphics in RTF, to include in a Word document. When I save the Word document as PDF, most of one graphic disappears. This happens with Word 2010.
After reading this thread, I tried uploading the Word file to OneDrive, where I can use the Word 2013 app. I can open the file in the Word 2013 app, then save it to PDF. After converting to PDF, all of the graphics are in the document!
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