Date:         Thu, 24 Feb 2000 11:33:12 EST
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From:         Philip Gallagher <PGall9898@AOL.COM>
Subject:      compendium of suggestions for exporting SASGRAPH to Word
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I wrote recently asking for simple minded procedures
for sending SASGRAPH output to a colleague.  I
mentioned that we both have Word.  Some of the
following suggestions were sent privately, and I
thought it good email manners to let the entire list
see the full panoply of ideas.  Thanks to all who
responded.

By the way, the SAS document to which Nat
Wooding refers is indeed still available at www.sas.com.
It is in two versions, 15OCT99 and 1NOV99.  I have
downloaded both but have not yet discovered the
differences between them.  I heard Peter Ruiza's talk
at the RTI SUG many years ago, but I had never used
it, so you may readily imagine how much of the
detail I remembered.  (Besides, the advice has
changed a great deal since then.)

Summing up, thanks again to
Peter Ruiza
Jim.Burkhardt
Bill Droogendyk
Nat_Wooding
Bob Schechter
Andre Wielki
Christoph Edel

Phil Gallagher
Nantucket & Chapel Hill

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Jim.Burkhardt suggested:

How about selecting FILE->SEND to Send E-mail
while looking at the graph in V6.12.
Works fine and is really simple if you are using MS Exchange.
Produces a BMP image that anybody can view.

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Bill Droogendyk suggested:

it sounds like you are making only one graph

the simplest, but not the best resolution, is to display
it on your screen and then choose file, export and
save it as a jpeg or emf/wmf file.  All of these are easliy
imported into word.


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Nat_Wooding suggested

As a quick reply, may I suggest that you look for the SAS
tech support document on their web site that discusses
exporting to other products I think it's TS232 but don't hold
be to that number. The same material appeared in a paper
by Peter Ruza given at SUGI a couple years ago.

If you are doing a single or a few graphs, you can always
cut and paste into Word.


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Bob Schechter suggested

FWIW - When I've been in this position I had SAS create
the graph as a GIF and attached it to my e-mail message.
As long as an application like a browser is available viewing
is a no brainer.

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Andre Wielki suggested

All the solutions with bmp ...   and so on with export are
quite bitmapped and of bad quality.

i suggest you  : make a cgm file and import it in word
 then mail the word file to your partner

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Christoph Edel suggested

could you send the graphics catalog along with a short greplay
program to the client, with comments as to what alterations
should be made (in particular, the relevant libname for the catalog).
The client's SAS installation settings should hopefully produce a
reasonable approximation of the graph you create on your own
machine, or you could precede the greplay by your own goptions
statement.