The mechanism for viewing graphics created with ODS can vary depending on your operating system, which viewers are installed on your computer, and the ODS destination you have selected. If you do not specify an ODS destination, then the LISTING destination is used by default. If you are using the SAS windowing environment, go to the Results window and find the icon for the corresponding graph. You can double-click the graph icon to display the graph in the default viewer that is configured on your computer for the corresponding image file type (see Figure 21.16).

If you are using the SAS windowing environment and you specify an HTML destination, then the results are displayed by default in the SAS Results window as they are being generated. Depending on your configuration, this can also apply to the PDF and RTF destinations. If you are using the LATEX or the PS destinations, you must use a PostScript viewer, such as GSview. For information about the windowing environment in a different operating system, see the SAS Companion for that operating system.

If you do not want to view the results as they are being generated, then select Tools Options Preference from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then in the Results tab, clear View results as they are generated checkbox.

You can change the default to use an external viewer instead of the Results window. Select Tools Options Preferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then in the Results tab select Preferred web browser. Your results are displayed in the default viewer that is configured on your computer for the corresponding destination.

You can also choose your browser for HTML output. Select Tools Options Preferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then in the Web tab, select Other browser, and type (or browse) the path of your preferred browser.