topic Re: report program, log and output windows in one file, in pdf format if best in SAS Programming

report program, log and output windows in one file, in pdf format if best

deleted_user — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:46:21 GMT

I routinely need to generate pdf files containing program, log and output results. I am wondering if someone has had the code to automate it. If pdf is not an easy one, can a single file be generated in other formats?

Thanks.

Re: report program, log and output windows in one file, in pdf format if best

sbb — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:01:44 GMT

Interactive SAS sessions? Batch? Daily production runs on an unattended server-class machine, or SAS adhoc queries/sessions? What OS is SAS running-on? Is SAS running locally or on a server? Have you looked at using ALTLOG and ALTPRINT SAS system options to create a copy of your process output?

You could always batch-process the results of a SAS session, writing the results to a "concatenated" PDF-format file, using SAS ODS. Or possibly you may find a suitable solution with a "PDF maker" utility function, operating in conjunction with the SAS system on a machine/workstation.

Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.

Re: report program, log and output windows in one file, in pdf format if best

Cynthia_sas — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:19:37 GMT

Hi:
As Scott says, there are a lot of unknowns in your question. Have you searched for previous forum postings? I know that this question has come up before and I have posted code several times. The topic titles were something like:
"Adding syntax at the end of ODS output"
and
"SAS log in ODS format" or "SAS log in RTF format" (or HTML or PDF)

A search on these topics should help you figure out whether a SAS approach or a 3rd party or Adobe approach is the way to go. In these previously posted programs, the end result would have been 2 separate PDF files -- one PDF file with the report output and one, separate, PDF file with the program/log output.

Generally, the issue with the "all-in-one" file approach -- where you have the report, the program (.SAS) file -and- the log (.LOG or .TXT) file all together is that although you can use ODS PDF to create the report output, you normally need to use "post-processing" techniques to get the .SAS file and the .LOG file into another, separate, PDF.

There are no SAS techniques to allow you to combine already-created PDF files, so unless you use ODS DOCUMENT to capture your report output objects and the .SAS file and the .LOG file into a DOCUMENT store, you are probably looking at the 3rd party PDF creation route.

cynthia