SAS 9.4 Output Delivery System, 3rd Edition

Interaction

The XPIXELS= option in the SAS/GRAPH GOPTIONS statement

overrides the WIDTH= attribute.

Tips

A column of cells has the width of the widest cell in the column.

Use WIDTH=100% to make the table or graph as wide as the window

that it is open in.

Style Attribute Values

color

is a string that identifies a color. A color is defined in the following ways:

• most of the color names that are supported by SAS/GRAPH. These names

include the following:

• a predefined SAS color (for example, blue or VIYG)

• a red/green/blue (RGB) value (for example, CX0023FF)

• a hue/light/saturation (HLS) value (for example, H14E162D)

• a gray-scale value (for example, GRAYBB).

• a red/green/blue transparency (RGBA) value (for example, a98FB9880)

• a cyan/magenta/yellow/black (CMYK) value (for example, FFFFFF00)

Note: RGBA color mode is not supported by Java devices. RGBA color mode is

supported by ActiveX devices when the output is used in Microsoft

applications.

• an RGB value with a leading number sign (#) rather than CX (for example,

#0023FF).

• one of the colors that exist in the SAS session when the style is used:

• DMSBLUE

• DMSRED

• DMSPINK

• DMSGREEN

• DMSCYAN

• DMSYELLOW

• DMSWHITE

• DMSORANGE

• DMSBLACK

• DMSMAGENTA

• DMSGRAY

• DMSBROWN

• SYSBACK

• SYSSECB

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• SYSFORE

Note: Use these colors only when running SAS in the windowing environment.

• an English description of an HLS. Such descriptions use a combination of words

to describe the lightness, the saturation, and the hue (in that order). Use the Color

Naming System to form a color in the following ways:

• combining a chromatic hue with a lightness, a saturation, or both

• combining the achromatic hue gray with a lightness

• combining the achromatic hue black or white without qualifiers

Use the words in the following table:

Table 11.6 Hue/Light/Saturation (HLS) Values

Lightness Saturation Chromatic Hue Achromatic Hue

Blue

Black

*

Very dark Grayish Purple

Dark Moderate Red

Medium Strong Orange | brown

Gray

**

Light Vivid Yellow

Very light Green

White

*

*

Black and white cannot be combined with a lightness value or a saturation value.

**

Gray cannot be combined with a saturation value.

Combine these words to form a wide variety of colors. Here are examples:

• light vivid green

• dark vivid orange

• light yellow

Note: The Output Delivery System first tries to match a color with a

SAS/GRAPH color. Thus, although brown and orange are interchangeable in

the table, if you use them as unmodified hues, then they are different. The

reason for this is that ODS interprets them as SAS colors, which are mapped

to different colors.

You can also specify hues that are intermediate between two neighboring colors.

To do so, combine one of these adjectives with one of its neighboring colors:

• reddish

• orangish

• brownish

• yellowish

• greenish

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• bluish

• purplish

• bluish purple

• reddish orange

• yellowish green

Tips

For a list of some valid colors, see Link to Valid Colors to use

with cascading style sheets

To see how color names map to hexadecimal values, submit the following

REGISTRY procedure code:

proc registry list startat="COLORNAMES";

run;

See

RBG Color Codes, HLS Color Codes, and Gray-Scale Color codes in

SAS/GRAPH: Reference for information about SAS/GRAPH colors.

dimension

is a whole number, a percentage, or a nonnegative number followed by one of these

units of measure:

Table 11.7 Units of Measure for Dimension

cm Centimeters

em Standard typesetting measurement unit for width

ex Standard typesetting measurement unit for height

in Inches

mm Millimeters

pt A printer's point

Default

For the PRINTER destination, units of 1/150 of an inch

font-definition

is the name of a font, the font size, and font keywords. A font definition has this

general format:

("font-face-1 <… , font-face-n>", font-size, keyword-list)

"font-face"

specifies the name of the font.

ODS styles can now use new TrueType fonts. All Universal Printers and many

SAS/GRAPH devices use the FreeType library to render TrueType fonts for

output in all of the operating environments that SAS software supports. In

addition, by default, many SAS/GRAPH device drivers and all Universal Printers

generate output using ODS styles, and these ODS styles use TrueType fonts. In

addition to SAS Monospace and SAS Monospace Bold, 21 new TrueType fonts

are made available when you install SAS:

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