topic Re: RTF to PDF in ODS and Base Reporting

RTF to PDF

S_E_N_T_H_I_L — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:38:40 GMT

Hi to all,
I generated one Word Document which contains the Hyperlinks to open the particular pages of PDF.
(FYI: Hyperlinks are generated by RTF Tags).
When I converted that file (doc) to PDF by ‘PRINT’ options, I can’t get those hyperlinks. I believe this was happened due to ‘RTF Tags’. Since RTF tags are not worked in PDF.

Any one can help to resolve this.

Thanks in Advance.

Regards,
S E N T H I L

Re: RTF to PDF

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:02:29 GMT

Hi:
I noticed that you also posted this question in the Microsoft Office forum. This suggested method for setting hyperlinks was posted there:
http://support.sas.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=7725&tstart=0

In addition to that method, (which shows a URL= style override being used in a SAS TITLE statement), you can set a URL based on a variable's value, as shown in the program below.

cynthia

[pre]
proc format;
value $gend 'M' = 'http://www.google.com'
'F' = 'http://www.weather.com';
run;

title; footnote;
options nodate nonumber;
ods listing close;

ods pdf file="c:\temp\show_url.pdf" notoc;
ods escapechar="^";

proc print data=sashelp.class;
title 'Use URL in variable cells based on variable value';
var name age height;
var sex / style(data)={url=$gend.};
run;

ods pdf close;
[/pre]

Re: RTF to PDF

S_E_N_T_H_I_L — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:15:50 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for your response.

Already I have tried this method. But it not meet the following(MY) situations,

1. More than one hyperlink in specified cell
2. Hyperlink should be present in the specified text.., not for whole cell

Help to resolve this.

Thanks & Regards,
S E N T H I L

Re: RTF to PDF

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:37:10 GMT

Hi:
As Scott already replied to your previous posting....you can only have one hyperlink per cell. And the hyperlink attaches to the contents of the whole cell. If you have an Adobe product, can you put multiple hyperlinks in a single table cell??? And, even if it is possible with an Adobe product, you can't do everything with SAS that you can do with Adobe when you create a PDF file.

cynthia