topic Re: Why the pagesize not works in the options but the date works when I download the results as pdf in SAS Programming

Why the pagesize not works in the options but the date works when I download the results as pdf

mdoddala — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:50:37 GMT

options nodate pagesize=20;
filename blo '/home/mdoddala0/blood.txt';
data blood; 
infile blo;
input id gender $ bloodgrp $ age $ amount level rate;
proc print;
run;

Re: Why the pagesize not works in the options but the date works when I download the results as pdf

Reeza — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:56:22 GMT

PageSize should not apply to PDF files only to the log and listing destinations. If you're using the newer versions of SAS you don't need to worry about these options as much. They're from the era where text files were very common even as final output files.

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lesysoptsref&docsetTarget=n02ek00ir5ihs8n1rewzb5obh1p7.htm&docsetVersion=9.4&locale=en

The PAGESIZE= system option affects the following output:

the Output window for the ODS LISTING destination

the SAS log in batch and non-interactive modes

the ODS markup destinations when the PRINT option is used in the FILE statement in a DATA step (the FILE PRINT ODS statement is not affected by the PAGESIZE= system option)

procedures that produce characters that cannot be scaled, such as the PLOT procedure, the CALENDAR procedure, the TIMEPLOT procedure, the FORMS procedure, and the CHART procedure

Re: Why the pagesize not works in the options but the date works when I download the results as pdf

mdoddala — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:59:53 GMT

I felt that I was not doing something right when those options are not working properly but thanks for the suggestions:) @Reeza