The mechanism for viewing graphs 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 default destination is either HTML or LISTING.

If you are using the SAS windowing environment and the HTML destination, then the results are displayed by default in the SAS Results Viewer unless you chose to use an external browser. To use an external viewer, select Tools Options Preferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then select the Results and Web tabs to make your selection.

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 Preferences from the menu at the top of the main SAS window. Then on the Results tab, clear the View results as they are generated checkbox.

If you are using the SAS windowing environment and the LISTING destination, 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 21.13).