Producing High-Quality Figures Using SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics Procedures

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SAS Can Produce High-Quality Figures

1.1 Introduction

Many people consider SAS a poor tool for producing high-quality gures.

This is a misconception. However, to produce high-quality gures that meet

publication requirements, it is very important that you know how to choose

the right formats and fonts when using SAS/GRAPH and ODS Graphics

procedures. We all have seen poor-quality gures produced using SAS in

publications, including various SAS user group proceedings or even in some

SAS books.

This chapter compares poor and good-quality gures produced in SAS,

and discusses vector and bitmap format graphics. The chapter also discusses

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