topic Re: How to create batch PDF files from banary data files in SAS Programming

How to create batch PDF files from binary data files

tekish — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:42:30 GMT

Experts,

I have a data stored as binary in the server and I want to convert the banary data into PDF format. Is there a way to convert banary data into a report in PDF format.

data binarydata;
infile "C:\bin\binarydata.txt" recfm=N;
input c $char1.;
put c $char1. @@;
run;

ods pdf file="C:\bin\binarydata.pdf";
proc print data=binarydata;
run;
ods pdf;

Re: How to create batch PDF files from banary data files

Reeza — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:33:33 GMT

Your approach seems correct. Which part isn't working or what isn't working as expected (Note that I'm not going to import a binary file that I don't understand).

Post any errors from the log.

@tekish wrote:

Experts,

I have a data stored as binary in the server and I want to convert the banary data into PDF format. Is there a way to convert banary data into a report in PDF format.

data binarydata;
infile "C:\bin\binarydata.txt" recfm=N;
input c $char1.;
put c $char1. @@;
run;

ods pdf file="C:\bin\binarydata.pdf";
proc print data=binarydata;
run;
ods pdf;

Re: How to create batch PDF files from banary data files

ChrisNZ — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:05:09 GMT

Your data looks like hexadecimal codes, not binary data.

So something like this is more suitable.

data binarydata;
  infile "&pathin/binarydata.txt" recfm=N;
  file   "&pathout/binarydata.pdf" recfm=N;
  input  C $hex2. @@;
  put    C $char1. @@;
  putlog C $char1. @@;
run;

This should work as this code yields an output file that starts with:

Catalog/ViewerPreferences<</Direction/L2R>>>>endobj2 0 obj<</Count 1/Kids[ 4 0 R ]/Type/Pages>>

[Edited: Sorry, altered for clarity]

Re: How to create batch PDF files from binary data files

ChrisNZ — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:43:00 GMT

Fixed typo in title.