Many SAS
analytical procedures now produce graphical output automatically using
the ODS Graphics system. These graphics are produced using predefined
templates that are shipped with SAS. The templates define the structure
of the graph, including the plots, titles, footnotes, legends, and
other attributes of the graph. You can customize the output graphs
by editing the predefined template. However, such customization requires
detailed knowledge of the Template procedure and the graph template
language (GTL).
You might
want to make small changes to a graph without having to work with
templates and GTL. For example, you might want to add, edit, or remove
a title or a footnote. Or, you might want to change the size, shape,
and color of graphical elements such as the markers and lines. The
ODS Graphics Editor provides a graphical user interface for making
these changes easily without knowing the details of templates and
GTL.
The ODS
Graphics Editor enables you to edit the various elements in the output
graph while keeping the underlying data unchanged. In addition, you
can annotate a graph by inserting text, lines, arrows, images, and
other items in a layer above the graph. You can save the results of
your customization as an ODS Graphics Editor (SGE) file and make
incremental changes to the file. You can also save the results as
a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image file for inclusion
in other documents.