topic Re: ODS PDF and PROC REPORT - undesired border/spacing between columns in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS PDF and PROC REPORT - undesired border/spacing between columns

mpg — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:39:50 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to use PROC REPORT and ODS PDF to generate a stylized report with alternate row highlighting. There is a gap or white border appearing between columns on the rows and the summary border that I cannot figure out how to get rid of, despite playing with various BORDERWIDTH and BORDERSPACING options. The spacing does not appear when I run only the PROC REPORT code and view the output in the Results Viewer, but it does appear in the PDF (see attached file). Any thoughts on what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

OPTIONS NODATE NONUMBER NOCENTER NOBYLINE TOPMARGIN="1IN" BOTTOMMARGIN="1IN" LEFTMARGIN="1IN" RIGHTMARGIN="1IN" MISSING=' ';
ODS ESCAPECHAR='^';
ODS PDF FILE="&MPGDRIVE\TEST DOC.PDF" UNIFORM NOTOC;
ODS PDF STARTPAGE=NO;

PROC REPORT DATA=SASHELP.COMPANY NOWINDOWS HEADLINE MISSING
    style(report)={outputwidth=100% rules=none frame=void borderspacing=0}
    style(header)={borderwidth=0 borderspacing=0 backgroundcolor=cx990000 color=white font_size=16pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Demi Cond'}
    style(column)={borderwidth=0 borderspacing=0 font_size=12pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'}
    style(summary)={borderspacing=0 bordertopwidth=2 bordertopcolor=black font_size=16pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Demi Cond'};
COLUMN ('Level 3' LEVEL3) LEVEL2,N;
DEFINE LEVEL3 / GROUP '' STYLE(COLUMN)=[CELLWIDTH=3.4IN borderspacing=0];
COMPUTE LEVEL3;
    COUNT+1;
    IF (MOD(COUNT,2)) THEN CALL DEFINE(_ROW_, 'STYLE','STYLE=[BACKGROUND=#FFCCCC borderspacing=0]');
    IF _BREAK_='_RBREAK_' THEN CALL DEFINE('LEVEL3','style','style=[pretext="Total"]');
    IF _BREAK_='_RBREAK_' THEN CALL DEFINE(_ROW_, 'STYLE','STYLE=[BACKGROUND=#FFFFFF]');
ENDCOMP;
DEFINE LEVEL2 / ACROSS '' STYLE(COLUMN)=[borderspacing=0];
DEFINE N / '' FORMAT=COMMA8.0 STYLE(COLUMN)=[CELLWIDTH=1IN borderspacing=0];
RBREAK AFTER / SUMMARIZE;
RUN;

ODS PDF CLOSE;

Re: ODS PDF and PROC REPORT - undesired border/spacing between columns

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 11 May 2015 22:47:50 GMT

Hi:

I'd really recommend working with Tech Support on this. Generally, when I see PDF inserting extra space, it happens because I am trying to "overcontrol" the widths of the columns So what happens if you take out either the outputwidth=100% or the hard-coded cellwidth of 1in for the N statistic? My guess is that those 2 width specifications are somehow colliding and PDF doesn't know how to draw the table. But that is just a guess. Tech Support would be able to help with a more definitive answer.

cynthia

Re: ODS PDF and PROC REPORT - undesired border/spacing between columns

mpg — Tue, 12 May 2015 13:07:11 GMT

Cynthia,

Thanks so much for the suggestion about overcontrolling the formatting. I removed the outputwidth part, and the extra spacing was gone!

Thanks again,

Mike

Re: ODS PDF and PROC REPORT - undesired border/spacing between columns

Ksharp — Tue, 12 May 2015 14:30:52 GMT

Once I remove CELLWIDTH=3.4IN and CELLWIDTH=1IN . I get the right result .

OPTIONS NODATE NONUMBER NOCENTER NOBYLINE TOPMARGIN="1IN" BOTTOMMARGIN="1IN" LEFTMARGIN="1IN" RIGHTMARGIN="1IN" MISSING=' ';

ODS ESCAPECHAR='^';

ODS PDF FILE="c:\temp\DOC.PDF" UNIFORM NOTOC;

ODS PDF STARTPAGE=NO;

PROC REPORT DATA=SASHELP.COMPANY NOWINDOWS HEADLINE MISSING

style(report)={outputwidth=100% rules=none frame=void borderspacing=0}

style(header)={borderwidth=0 borderspacing=0 backgroundcolor=cx990000 color=white font_size=16pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Demi Cond'}

style(column)={borderwidth=0 borderspacing=0 font_size=12pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Medium Cond'}

style(summary)={borderspacing=0 bordertopwidth=2 bordertopcolor=black font_size=16pt font_face='Franklin Gothic Demi Cond'};

COLUMN ('Level 3' LEVEL3) LEVEL2,N;

DEFINE LEVEL3 / GROUP '' STYLE(COLUMN)=[ borderspacing=0];

COMPUTE LEVEL3;

COUNT+1;

IF (MOD(COUNT,2)) THEN CALL DEFINE(_ROW_, 'STYLE','STYLE=[BACKGROUND=#FFCCCC borderspacing=0]');

IF _BREAK_='_RBREAK_' THEN CALL DEFINE('LEVEL3','style','style=[pretext="Total"]');

IF _BREAK_='_RBREAK_' THEN CALL DEFINE(_ROW_, 'STYLE','STYLE=[BACKGROUND=#FFFFFF]');

ENDCOMP;

DEFINE LEVEL2 / ACROSS '' STYLE(COLUMN)=[borderspacing=0];

DEFINE N / '' FORMAT=COMMA8.0 STYLE(COLUMN)=[borderspacing=0];

RBREAK AFTER / SUMMARIZE;

RUN;

ODS PDF CLOSE;