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When a SAS/GRAPH procedure is invoked, it defines the layout of the graph under the current settings and sends the image to each of the output destinations. Because a graph has only one layout regardless of the number of output destinations, the output for each destination always looks the same.

When you start with a basic SAS job stream (with no ODS statements at all), if you don't specify the TARGETDEVICE or DEVICE options on the GOPTIONS statement, then the default device is used. For interactive SAS sessions, this is the display device. As a rule, display devices have a landscape orientation. When you add ODS HTML to the job, you don't change the target device at all; you merely render another copy of it to the GIF device to create a GIF image file. The GIF device driver is also landscape-oriented by default.

But if you add ODS PRINTER, you might see a difference in the output. The printer does, in fact, have a physical page with a specific shape and size. This page is usually portrait-orientated. To help the graph fit the page, the ODS PRINTER destination sets the TARGETDEVICE to the ODS PRINTER device driver, SASPRTC (or SASPRTG or SASPRTB, depending on the color support of the ODS PRINTER device).

Beause all ODS destinations are given the same output image, setting the TARGETDEVICE changes the appearance of the graphn in the ODS HTML output as well.

Here is the fix: Set TARGETDEVICE=GIF. The ODS PRINTER code does not reset the TARGETDEVICE if you have already set one yourself, so you can override its decision by setting TARGETDEVICE before or after the ODS PRINTER statement. At ODS PRINTER CLOSE time, if it set the device, and the device is still set to an ODS PRINTER device, then that value is cleared and returned to the default. Note that ODS PRINTER writes messages to the log about these actions.

Below is what the graph looks like when rendered incorrectly and correctly:

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