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From: Tom Abernathy on 24 Feb 2010 12:51
GIF is a pixel based format. I assume SASPRTC is a vector format. So
rather than having to store megabytes of pixels into the PDF SAS just
needs to store the PDF commands to draw the lines.

On Feb 24, 5:10 am, jordi <jordibrac...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 23, 6:25 pm, karlstud...(a)HOTMAIL.COM (KarlK) wrote:
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> > Jordi,
> > I don't have any insight (sorry), but I'll be interested in what you find
> > out. I've done a LOT of sas-graph-to-PDF stuff since v8.0, and since
> > upgrading to v9.2, I find I keep saying to myself, "Gee, this seems to be
> > taking a long time." Are you using 9.2?
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> > Karl
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> > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:16:59 -0800, jordi <jordibrac...(a)GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >Hi all,
>
> > >Consider this construct:
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> > >   options pageno=1 nodate nonumber nocenter orientation=landscape
> > >noquotelenmax;
> > >   goptions reset=all noborder ftext=Simplex htext=4 gunit=pct
> > >device=gif;
> > >   ods _all_ close;
> > >   ods pdf startpage=never notoc file=whatever.pdf';
> > >   ods escapechar="^";
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> > >      SOME PROC GCHART;
> > >      or
> > >      SOME PROC GRADAR;
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> > >   ods pdf close;
> > >   ods listing;
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> > >My concerns are that if I try to plot the same data without generating
> > >a pdf file, that is, changing the target device to, eg, "activex", my
> > >code runs in a breeze, whereas with the ods pdf construct, it take
> > >ages (as an example: 222 seconds vs 0.9 seconds with the activex).
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> > >Looking at the log files, I can see that computing time is not the
> > >problem. Somehow, it seems that it takes a long time to prepare the
> > >actual images of the plots and to save them correctly in my pdf file.
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> > >Any help will be much appreciated. There must be something in the form
> > >of goptions to help me dramatically improve the speed of my code
> > >without sacrificing the beauty and positioning power of ods pdf plots.
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> > >Thank you very much for your help.
> > >Regards.- Hide quoted text -
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> KarlK,
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> I am using v9.1.
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> What I found out, thanks to Ya Huang, is that changing from
> "device=gif" to "device=sasprtc" in my goptions declaration greatly
> reduces performance time.
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> As an example, here is what it takes for a piece of code containing
> one PROC GCHART and one PROC GRADAR together with some PROC TABULATE
> and a DATA STEP:
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> * with "device=gif":   223.19 seconds
> * with "device=sasprtc": 0.81 seconds
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> Why, I do not know I.
> Hope this can help you as well.
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> Jordi.- Hide quoted text -
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