ODS PDF report: Adjusting position of Table of Contents

Jack1 — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:06:57 GMT

I am creating a multi-page pdf report containing a cover page and a table of contents.

Page 1 (cover page) is fine. On page 2, how do I move the Table of Contents so that is starts closer to the top of the page instead of starting at the middle of the page?

Here's my code:


options nodate /*nonumber*/ ORIENTATION=portrait
topmargin = .01in bottommargin = .01in leftmargin = .01in rightmargin = .01in;
ods escapechar = "^";
ODS pdf file='C:\user\BP23\Express_v6\FY23_Plan_Visualizations.pdf' startpage=no notoc;
ods noproctitle; 

data test;
   text="^nFY23 Express Business Plan:^nData Tables & Visualizations";
run;

* Insert a logo and blank lines (used to move the title text to the center of page);
ods pdf text='^S={preimage="C:\user\BP23\Express_v6\fedex_big_logo.png"}';
ods pdf text="^20n";

* Output the title text;
proc report data=test noheader center   
     style(report)={rules=none frame=void} 
     style(column)={font_weight=bold font_size=20pt just=c};
run;
ods pdf startpage=now;

*****start of table of contents;

data test;
   text="^nTable of Contents^n
   ^nSmall Package:
         ^nPO............................3
         ^**bleep**............................4
^nIE............................5
^nTD............................6
^nE2............................7
^nSO............................8^n 
^nFreight:
^nIPFS.........................9
^nIEF.........................10
^nF1............................11
^nIXF...........................12
^nSpecial Aggregates:
^nTotal Express................13
^nE-Commerce...................14
^nBusiness-to-Business (B2B)...15
";
run;

* Insert a logo and blank lines (used to move the title text to the center of page);
ods pdf text='^S={preimage="C:\user\BP23\Express_v6\fedex_big_logo.png"}';
ods pdf text="^20n";

* Output the title text;
proc report data=test noheader   
     style(report)={rules=none frame=void} 
     style(column)={font_weight=bold font_size=20pt just=c};
run;
ods pdf startpage=now;

Re: ODS PDF report: Adjusting position of Table of Contents

ChrisNZ — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 00:43:31 GMT

Remove this line?

ods pdf text="^20n";

Re: ODS PDF report: Adjusting position of Table of Contents

ballardw — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 01:13:18 GMT

A minor style suggestion: Move creation of all data sets out of your ODS destination/ ods destination close "sandwich". It will make the output creation more obvious and shorten that code. If you recreate the same data set many times, such as would happen with a test of different report or graph options, you may add significant time to your program run time and test cycles.

Re: ODS PDF report: Adjusting position of Table of Contents

Jack1 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 16:02:33 GMT

That's it! After removing the line

ods pdf text="^20n";

in the table of contents page section, the positioning is perfect:

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