Creating Graphic Images with the ODS Statistical Graphics Framework

Unlike device-based SAS/GRAPH procedures, template-based procedures do not create GRSEG entries in a SAS catalog. By default, when you use ODS Statistical Graphics, as in the previous example, ODS creates a PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file for each image and for each output destination.

The previous program created listing output and HTML output. The PPPLOT.PNG image in Figure 20.3 was created when ODS sent the PROC UNIVARIATE plot to the LISTING destination. ODS created a second image file, PPLOT1.PNG, when it sent the same output to the HTML destination.

Additional images are assigned numeric suffixes sequentially during your SAS session. Because both the LISTING and HTML ...

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