topic Convert SAS Program Files to PDF in SAS Programming

Convert SAS Program Files to PDF

Doug — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:47:16 GMT

Are there any quick methods available to convert multiple SAS program files into PDF documents?

Reeza — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:56:36 GMT

Adobe Professional. Or if you have Word 2010 open them using Word and save as PDF, you could easily write a VBA macro to do that.

You could also probably write a macro to read in the program and then PDF it as well I'm guessing.

Haikuo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:19:38 GMT

ODS can come to your rescue: (works under 9.2)

filename sas "h:\sas.sas";

ods listing close;

ODS pdf file="H:\sas.pdf";

data _null_;

infile sas ;

input;

temp=_infile_;

file print ods;

put _ods_;

run;

ODS pdf CLOSE;

ods listing;

And if you have multiple .sas under the same folder, you can use pipe, filevar= etc to do conversion.

Haikuo

Haikuo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:03:00 GMT

Code for multiple .sas file pdf conversion, you may need to tweak some parameters to suit your environment.

filename codes pipe "dir /b /s h:\temp\sascode\*.sas";

ods listing close;

ODS pdf file="H:\sas.pdf";

data _null_;

infile codes truncover;

input fname $40.;

infile dummy filevar=fname end=done;

do while(not done);

input ;