topic Re: ODS PDF and Proc Print in ODS and Base Reporting

ODS PDF and Proc Print

Brian_Neil — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:43:12 GMT

I use ODS PDF and Proc Print to create reports for emailing to users. About the first half of the report each data line is split into 2 lines of output. The second half of the report contains all the data on one output line, with the data elements wrapped in the column. I would prefer the later style as it would reduce the number of pages in the report. Any ideas how to force the data to all be on one line consistently?

Re: ODS PDF and Proc Print

David_SAS — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:34:55 GMT

Did you check the ODS PRINTER FAQ at Technical Support,

http://support.sas.com/rnd/base/topics/templateFAQ/Template.html

There are a couple of items in the FAQ that address your question, at least partially.

-- David Kelley, SAS

Message was edited by: David@SAS at Mar 20, 2006 7:38 PM
Message was edited by: David@SAS at Mar 20, 2006 7:39 PM

Re: ODS PDF and Proc Print

Kathryn_SAS — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:22:10 GMT

You can try using the UNIFORM option on the ODS PDF statement to have all pages print uniformly.

Re: ODS PDF and Proc Print

ScottH_SAS — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:04:08 GMT

Brian,

I would like to see a sample of your output and possibly a code snippet. Could you write to ods@sas.com with this information?

Thanks!

Re: ODS PDF and Proc Print

Cynthia_sas — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:26:55 GMT

Possibly the UNIFORM option could help you, too. It adds some overhead to your step, but tells ODS to check all the columns to set a uniform column width. This may or may not have the desired effect.
cynthia

ODS PDF file='wombat.pdf' UNIFORM;
...code...
ODS PDF CLOSE;