topic Margins and Gutter in ODS and Base Reporting

Margins and Gutter

Doug____ — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 14:52:56 GMT

PROC OPTIONS indicates that the default margins for PDF is 0 on all sides. However, there must be a gutter or some offset that prevents printing all the way to the edge of the page. I did not find anything like this in the style templates, so how it set and controlled?

Re: Margins and Gutter

ballardw — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 15:39:20 GMT

The margin setting reported by Proc Options refer to the SAS Universal Printing instructions and have nothing to do with any specific ODS destination.

The ODS destination defaults are likely what you see.

I don't mess with PDF but I do know that in ODS RTF that I can set margins per line using RTF codes that differ from the current default that my RTF file viewer uses.

Re: Margins and Gutter

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 19:40:44 GMT

Hi:

Try setting something really really small, but not exactly 0. For example look at the difference between setting 0:

and setting 0.00001 (actually, I didn't notice any difference between 0.0001 and 0.00001):

The second example gets you closer to the paper edges.

Cynthia