Sorry, I'm using SAS 9.2 and usually just the default DEVICE, I just switch the ods output type (ie. 'ods pdf;' or 'ods rtf' or nothing). In the past I have tried different devices, for instance 'device=pscolor' just yesterday to no avail, but I don't really know that much about what I should be using, which is what my question is 🙂
If you take this code for instance:
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goptions reset=all ;
ods pdf ;
ods rtf ;
symbol value=dot height=10 ;
proc gplot data=sashelp.class ;
plot height*weight ;
run;
symbol value=dot height=.01 ;
proc gplot data=sashelp.class ;
plot height*weight ;
run;
ods pdf close ;
ods rtf close ;
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The default graph window output looks kind of lumpy and prints stretched out. The rtf output looks lumpy and is small as well, plus it cuts off some of one of the big dots. The pdf output is usually my best, but even there the large dots are many-sided polygons, and the small dots (upon very close inspection) seem to be a combination of either very small squares, or slightly larger rounded-corner squares with bites taken out of their upper right corners. I'm not sure what to call those, but they're clearly not 'dots'!
If I'm just printing things out to review with people for ongoing projects I don't mind that it's a little weird looking, and the pdf output is usually just fine. But I also need to output publication-quality graphics in the end, preferably in a format that a researcher can simply copy and paste into a manuscript, or submit separately along with the manuscript. These can be raster images if they're sufficiently high-resolution, or they can be vector images if SAS supports vector elements for things like 'dot's.
-Max
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