topic Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf in SAS Programming

Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf

kaziumair — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 05:34:48 GMT

Hi everyone ,

I want to convert SAS log to pdf . I found a solution which works , have provided the link below .

Log to PDF

Are there any other methods to convert SAS Log to PDF?

Thanks and Regards,

Mohammad Umair Kazi.

Re: Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 07:48:55 GMT

To be honest, I would refrain from doing this on a regular basis. Log files are much easier to handle and parse in their pure text form. And they are smaller.

And if I need to write nice documentation (like previous papers for SAS Global Forums), I copy/paste the log text into the word processor, and save the document as pdf later anyway.

Re: Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf

kaziumair — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:25:00 GMT

Hi ,
The code for which the log will be converted to PDF is run on a monthly basis . I want to save the logs generated each month in a folder.

Re: Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf

Kurt_Bremser — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:28:14 GMT

You don't need to package the logs into pdf for that. Just redirect the logs with PROC PRINTTO (if interactive) or the -log commandline option (if the code is run in batch).

All our production logs are kept as pure text and accessible through the web server.

Re: Alternative ways to convert sas log to pdf

SASKiwi — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 20:30:39 GMT

PDF is a publishing format. Unless you are publishing your SAS logs for some reason I see no benefit to converting them from text.