topic Re: Combine PDF files using SAS in SAS Programming

Combine PDF files using SAS

djrisks — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 08:54:19 GMT

Hello, I would like to combine two PDF files (which are already stored externally) into one file by using SAS. I've seen a paper on how to achieve this with Proc Groovy, but the paper does not give all the instructions.

Thank you for your help!

Many thanks,

Kriss Harris

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

RW9 — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:06:45 GMT

You would call command line PDF combine:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1524493

Or the very useful PDFtk:

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Its not a SAS thing to combine PDFs. I would imagine groovy is calling some Java library to combine PDFs.

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

Jagadishkatam — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:18:15 GMT

Hi Kriss Harris,

could you please try the below code, hope it will work.

ods pdf file=’~path\final.pdf’;

ods pdf(a) file="~path\a.pdf";
ods pdf(a) close;

ods pdf(b) file="~path\b.pdf";
ods pdf(b) close;

ods pdf close;

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

djrisks — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:30:01 GMT

Thank you for this RW9. The PDFtk works well. I wanted to do it via the command line, but I didn't know much about the ADOBE SDK and how to do it that way. Have you done it that way before please?

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

djrisks — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:31:14 GMT

Hi Jag,

Thank you for this. My PDF files have already been created, so unfortunately I cannot use this method.

Many thanks,

Kriss

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

RW9 — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:34:57 GMT

Never used Adobe SDK, will look one day. PDFtk is really useful, I use it for extracting bookmark information and updating that.

Re: Combine PDF files using SAS

djrisks — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:42:29 GMT

Okay, thank you for confirming.