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Getting Started With SAS/GRAPH

Summary of Default Destinations, Styles, and Devices

Each destination has a default device and default style that are used if you do not specify otherwise. Also, each destination has a set of recommended devices. Default Devices and Styles for Commonly Used ODS Destinations summarizes this information for the LISTING, HTML, RTF, and PDF destinations.

You can use any style with any destination. If you specify a device with the GOPTIONS DEVICE= option, you should specify a device that is compatible with all of the destinations that you have open.

Default Devices and Styles for Commonly Used ODS Destinations
ODS Destination Default Device Default Style Default Output Recommended Devices
LISTING WIN (Windows)

XCOLOR (UNIX)

IBMPCGX (z/OS)

Listing Graphics output is displayed in the GRAPH window1 All devices2 except JAVA and ACTIVEX
HTML PNG Default

(Styles.Default)

HTML and PNG file PNG

GIF

JPEG

JAVA

JAVAIMG

ACTIVEX

ACTXIMG

SVG

JAVAMETA

GIFANIM

RTF SASEMF Rtf RTF file (with embedded metafile) SASEMF

PNG

JPEG

JAVAIMG

ACTIVEX

ACTXIMG

PDF SASPRTC Printer PDF file SASPRTC (color)

SASPRTG (gray scale)

SASPRTM (monochrome)

PRINTER SASPRTC Printer Controlled by the PRINTERPATH= system option (and by the SYSPRINT= system option on Windows)3 SASPRTC (color)

SASPRTG (gray scale)

SASPRTM (monochrome)

1 The default devices for the LISTING destination do not write image files to disk.

2 JAVAMETA is supported for the LISTING destination, but its output requires processing with the Metaview applet.

3 In Windows, if the PRINTERPATH= option is not specified, then SAS uses the setting of the SYSPRINT= system option. If neither the SYSPRINT= nor the PRINTERPATH= option has been set, then SAS uses the default Windows printer.

Note:   SASHELP.DEVICES also has high resolution versions of the PNG and JPEG devices, PNG300 and JPEG300. These devices are not appropriate choices for the HTML destination. Web browsers cannot display images in high resolution, so high resolution images appear very large.   [cautionend]

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