44010 - Creating graphics output with SAS® Enterprise Guide®

Usage Note 44010: Creating graphics output with SAS® Enterprise Guide®

There are several important things to keep in mind when producing graphics output with SAS® Enterprise Guide®.

By default, SAS Enterprise Guide wraps ODS statements around both the SAS® code that you submit from a Code window and around any SAS code that SAS Enterprise Guide creates for you when using a task.
With SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, HTML output is created by default by adding extra ODS HTML statements before and after any SAS code that you or SAS Enterprise Guide creates. With SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 and 4.3, SAS Report output is created by default.
To enable or disable the ODS destinations that SAS Enterprise Guide uses, select Tools ► Options. On the left side under Results, select Results General. On the right side under Result Formats, you can select or deselect the following output formats:
```
SAS Report
HTML
PDF
RTF
Text Output
```
In most situations, when you have a format selected such as SAS Report, HTML, PDF, or RTF, and are creating graphics output with SAS Enterprise Guide, you should not select the Text Output format as well. You might run into problems creating graphics output when the Text Output format is selected in addition to another output format.
Let us assume that you are submitting SAS/GRAPH code via SAS Enterprise Guide and that your code does not include any ODS statements. If you want the graph output to display in the Results viewer window, you must select at least one of the following formats:
```
SAS Report
HTML
PDF
RTF
```

SAS Enterprise Guide uses the ACTIVEX device driver by default when creating graphics output. The ACTIVEX device driver works well in most situations, but there might be occasions where you want to use a device driver other than ACTIVEX.
To change the default SAS/GRAPH device driver that SAS Enterprise Guide uses, select Tools ► Options. On the left side under Results, select Graph. On the right side, change the value for Graph Format.
With SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1, you can select the device driver from the following Graph Format values:
```
ActiveX
Java
GIF
JPEG
ActiveX image (SAS V9)
Java image (SAS V9)
SAS EMF (SAS V9)
```
With SAS Enterprise Guide 4.2 and 4.3, the PNG device driver is available in addition to the device drivers listed above.
Let us assume that you are submitting your own code via SAS Enterprise Guide and you have already included ODS statements in your code. In this case, the most common problem that you might run into is a conflict between the ODS statements that you include in your code and the ODS statements that SAS Enterprise Guide adds to your code. The extra ODS statements that SAS Enterprise Guide adds to your code can produce errors in the SAS Log or generate unexpected results. This might include duplicate graphs being created or graphics output being written to the wrong location.
There are two ways to circumvent this problem:
1. Select Tools ► Options. Select Results General on the left side. On the right side, deselect all of the options listed under Results Formats. Click Apply and OK. Now when you submit your code via SAS Enterprise Guide, extra ODS statements are no longer added.
2. Add the following ODS statement to the beginning of your code:
```
ods _all_ close; 
```
  This statement closes all of the ODS destinations that SAS Enterprise Guide opens by default, giving the ODS statements in your code complete control of the output. If your SAS/GRAPH code does not include any ODS statements and you do not want to use ODS when submitting your code via SAS Enterprise Guide, add the following two statements to the beginning of your code:
```
ods _all_ close;
ods listing; 
```

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
Product Family	Product	System	Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Tru64 UNIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Solaris for x64	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		OpenVMS Alpha	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux on Itanium	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Linux	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		HP-UX IPF	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Windows Vista for x64	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Windows Vista	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.1 TS1M3 SP4
		z/OS	9.1 TS1M3 SP4

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

Date Modified:	2011-12-20 10:29:35
Date Created:	2011-08-15 15:32:54

Type:	Usage Note
Priority:

Support

Usage Note 44010: Creating graphics output with SAS® Enterprise Guide®

Operating System and Release Information