topic ODS PDF TEXT in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS PDF TEXT

JasonNC — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:15:30 GMT

Hi,

I want to print the data using ODS PDF TEXT in Proc report

At present i am using

ODS PDF TEXT="~S={JUST=C FONT_SIZE=8pt FONT_FACE='Courier New' }* START *"

Instead of using Just=C or L or R i want to print it where ever i want.

I tried different options like spaces but it didn't work out.

Can some body let me know ASAP.

Re: ODS PDF TEXT

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:53:52 GMT

Hi:

I think I understand what you mean by "I want to print it where ever I want" -- In the "old" days, when people were using the LISTING destination (or Output window), you could use DATA _NULL_ to create "free-format" reports because you could treat the entire "page" like a piece of graph paper, with each block or cell in the graph paper representing 1 print position for 1 character. However, that concept of "free-format" reports only applied to the LISTING window, because it was a "monospace" font destination, where the letter i took up as much space as the letter w...for example:

Proportional spaced font:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

"Monospace" font, like Courier New or SAS Monospace:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

If you look at the above example, in the monospace font, the 3rd character "lines up" one above the other, no matter whether the character is an i or a or w. But, in the proportional spaced font the letters do NOT line up because that is a feature of proportional spaced fonts -- each letter takes up a variable amount of space determined by the font characteristics.

With ODS TEXT=, your only choices really are L, R or C.

Without seeing some kind of example of what you are trying to create, it's hard to give you better advice. Do you need a table? Do you need free-format text? Do you need a letter? Perhaps these Tech Support notes and papers and examples will help put things in context.

http://support.sas.com/kb/25/426.html

http://support.sas.com/kb/25/425.html

http://support.sas.com/kb/25/429.html

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi30/088-30.pdf

http://support.sas.com/kb/5/486.html

http://support.sas.com/kb/9/981.html

http://support.sas.com/kb/24/493.html

http://www.lexjansen.com/pnwsug/2007/Richard%20Koopmann%20-%20Experimenting%20with%20the%20ODS%20DATA%20Step%20Object.pdf

http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/forum2008/261-2008.pdf

http://www.wuss.org/proceedings09/09WUSSProceedings/papers/app/APP-OConnor.pdf

cynthia

ODS PDF TEXT

JasonNC — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:30:16 GMT

Hi Cynthia,

I want to print it as a free format text.On my pdf report i am printing it.

Like when pdf report ends i am using ODS PDF Text to print End of Report

Re: ODS PDF TEXT

Cynthia_sas — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:51:55 GMT

Hi:

Putting "End of Report" is not hard. You could do it in PROC REPORT with a COMPUTE AFTER block and a LINE statement (if your main report is PROC REPORT) or you can do it with ODS PDF TEXT= if your procedure is something else (like PROC FREQ or PROC MEANS, etc).

However, with TEXT= you are pretty much limited to Left, Center, Right justification, unless you pad your text string with non-breaking spaces and then turn ASIS=ON...but there is still no guarantee that the text string will be EXACTLY where you want it. I'm still not grasping why L, R or C is not adequate, though -- and there's always LEFTMARGIN and RIGHTMARGIN to help you out. Output below produced with SAS 9.3 on Windows.

The still-experimental DATA step interface and ODS REGION/ODS LAYOUT might do something for you, but it seems like a lot of work for "End of Report".

cynthia

** make some macro variables to use later;

%let j1 = Twas brillig and the slithy toves,;

%let j2 = Did gyre and gimble in the wabe.;

%let j3 = All mimsy were the borogroves,;

%let j4 = And the mome raths outgrabe.;

%let j5 = Beware the Jabberwock my son,;

%let j6 = The jaws that bite the claws that snatch.;

%let j7 = Beware the Jubjub bird and shun,;

%let j8 = The frumious Bandersnatch.;

ods pdf file='c:\temp\odstext.pdf' startpage=no notoc;

ods escapechar='^';

proc report data=sashelp.class(obs=3) nowd;

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

line 'End of Report';

endcomp;

run;

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=.25in}Line 1';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=.50in}Line 2';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=.75in}Line 3';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=1.00in}Line 4';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=1.25in}Line 5';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=1.50in}Line 6';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=1.75in}Line 7';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=2.00in}Line 8';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=2.25in}Line 9';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=2.50in}Line 10';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=2.75in}Line 11';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=3.00in}Line 12';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=3.25in}Line 13';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=3.50in}Line 14';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=3.75in}Line 15';

ods pdf text='^S={leftmargin=4.00in}Line 16';

ods pdf text="^S={leftmargin=2.50in rightmargin=1.0in}&j1 &j2 &j3 &j4 &j5 &j6 &j7 &j8";

ods pdf close;

Re: ODS PDF TEXT

JasonNC — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 03:49:34 GMT

Thanks cynthia that was helpful