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 HTML, LISTING, 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 window.1	All devices2 except JAVA and ACTIVEX
HTML	PNG	HTMLBlue	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)
1The default devices for the LISTING destination do not write image files to disk. However, you can produce files on disk by specifying a device that produces an image file (such as GIF, PNG, and so on), with the DEVICE= option in the GOPTION statement.
2JAVAMETA is supported for the LISTING destination, but its output requires processing with the Metaview applet.
3In 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.