Date:         Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:21:58 +0100
Reply-To:     alte@uni-greifswald.de
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Dietrich Alte <alte@UNI-GREIFSWALD.DE>
Organization: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald
Subject:      Re: Polishing a GPLOT: Two questions
Comments: To: anne5432@uni.de, sas-l <SAS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
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Annette wrote:
> I've written a program for a quite nice overlay GPLOT (see code below).
> At last I'd like to solve two peculiarities: (1) The data lines look a
> bit 'edgy'. Is there are trick to get them more smoother (e.g. just like
> simple elegant and not at all edgy looking lines).
You might try another driver instead og GIF. For importing in MS-WORD
etc. I use the Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) driver CGMOF97L (or
similar, see lib sashelp.devices) and the following goptions:

GOPTIONS
  RESET    =  ALL
  GUNIT    =  PCT
  GSFNAME  =  grafout
  GSFMODE  =  replace
  FTEXT    =  HWCGM005 /*HWCGM001 = Arial, HWCGM005 = Times */
  HTEXT    =  4
  XMAX     =  11IN            /* Maximum horizontal plot size in CM */
  YMAX     =  8.5IN           /* Maximum vertical plot size in CM  */
  HSIZE    =  24CM
  VSIZE    =  18CM
  HORIGIN  =  0CM
  VORIGIN  =  0CM
  /*CBACK    =  white*/
  CPATTERN =  red
  NOBORDER
  COLORS   = (black blue red)
  CSYMBOL  =  blue
  DEVICE   =  CGMOF97L /*CGMOF97L /*CGMMPPA  --> MS Powerpoint */
                        /* CGMOF97P --> MS-Office */
  DISPLAY
  LFACTOR = 2       /* skalingfactor line thickness */
  NOCELL;



> (2) The HAXIS shows only every second 'category' of GROUP.

Try to decrease font size (see above FTEXT).

Hope that helps

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