topic Re: ods pdf -- frame/border around entire page in ODS and Base Reporting

ods pdf -- frame/border around entire page

Dave25 — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 01:05:24 GMT

any suggestions how I put a frame/border around the entire page, in an ods pdf output?

(I've got a number of layout pieces, and would like them all enclosed in a single frame - what the boss wants)

thanks,

Dave

HB — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:32:00 GMT

It looks to me like you would create a region that was the whole page and then have your layout pieces inside that.

This :

shows a page background with blue and parts inside it.

Where it has

ods region
x=0 pct
y=0 pct
height=100 pct
width =100 pct;
goptions cback=cyan;

you may be able to figure out how to set a border instead of a background color.

HTH.

Dave25 — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 17:43:27 GMT

thanks for the reply. I had seen the paper you referred to, but was hoping to avoid gslide. I did try, but am not getting the hoped-for results:

options nodate nonumber;

title;

ods pdf file = "C:\a\test.pdf" NOGTITLE ;

%ANNOMAC

data anno;
%bar(0,0,100,100,cyan,e,1);
XSYS='3';
YSYS='3';
output;
run;

ods layout start;
ods region
x=0 pct
y=0 pct
height=100 pct
width =100 pct;
proc gslide anno=anno;
run; quit;
ods layout end;
ods pdf close;

HB — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:00:18 GMT

I would have guessed BORDER or FRAME rather than ANNOTATE.

proc gslide border
    cframe="black"
    wframe=4;

"The BORDER option draws a box around the entire graphics output area."

Dave25 — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 20:08:20 GMT

that works - thanks!