topic Re: ODS PDF TEXT QUERY in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS PDF TEXT QUERY

scb — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:03:21 GMT

I would like to put ABC appear same as LINE13 vertically, but I just could not get it. Anyone can help? Thanks.

ods pdf file='d:\odstest.pdf';

ods escapechar='^';

proc report data=sashelp.class(obs=1) nowd;

compute after /style={just=l leftmargin=3in};

endcomp;

run;

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=.75in}cde ^S={leftmargin=5.25in}ABC';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=5.25in}LINE13';

ods pdf close;

Re: ODS PDF TEXT QUERY

RW9 — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:47:59 GMT

Why not put that information in the footnotes. Almost all clinical outputs I have seen put code decodes and such like in footnotes. Also, you will be better off creating an RTF file first, so you can use RTF markup, then convert to PDF. Eg.

footnote "Page ^{thispage} of ^{lastpage}";

Never actually found a use for pdf text at all.

Re: ODS PDF TEXT QUERY

nehalsanghvi — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 17:11:53 GMT

I don't think you can specify a margin twice. What you are trying to do is insert spaces between CDE and ABC such that ABC lines up with LINE13 on the next line.

This code does that by inserting 127 non-breaking spaces, but this is not a very good way to do it as you have to play around a lot to get the number of spaces just right and if you change the casing on the text or add/remove text before the spaces, you have to adjust the number of spaces again:

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=.75in}CDE ^{nbspace 127}ABC';
ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=5.25in}LINE13';