topic Re: multiple rtfs in one rtf file in SAS Programming

multiple rtfs in one rtf file

abhinayingole — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:55:09 GMT

how to include multiple rtf files in one rtf using sas ?

Re: multiple rtfs in one rtf file

ballardw — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:31:42 GMT

Input (?????) or output?

Once SAS has created an output RTF (or pretty much any other ODS destination) it is up to other tools to combine them, if that is your question.

In SAS you have two ways to create such combined files: Place all of the output generated inside one ODS destination statement:

Dummy example:

ods rtf file="<path>somefile.rtf" <other ods options>;

Proc whatever;
run;
Proc otherproc;
run;

Proc yetanother;
run;

ods rtf close;

Another option is create all of the output in one session and then use Proc Document to select and combine the output objects and send to a single ODS destination.

Re: multiple rtfs in one rtf file

abhinayingole — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:34:54 GMT

i have 4 rtf file (already generated), i wanted to combine these 4 rtf in one rtf or pdf.

do you have any sample code for this ?

Re: multiple rtfs in one rtf file

Reeza — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:13:20 GMT

It can be done using SAS but there are better tools for this - Adobe Acrobat professional would be my suggestion.
Especially if this is something that needs to be done once.

https://www.lexjansen.com/pharmasug/2010/PO/PO05.pdf

https://www.lexjansen.com/nesug/nesug11/po/po10.pdf

Re: multiple rtfs in one rtf file

Cynthia_sas — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:27:54 GMT

Hi:
As @Reeza has explained, it would be much easier to combine the RTF files using Word or an Adobe product. The reason is that an RTF file, by Microsoft specification, has opening and closing control strings the denote the beginning and end of an RTF file. To combine the files using SAS, you'd have to write a program to strip out these open/close control strings, carefully -- strip the close out of the first file, strip the open and close out of the 2 middle files and then strip the open but leave the close on the last file. Doing this in Word or Adobe would be easier than writing or debugging the SAS program to do it. And unfortunately, if you're not careful, it is possible to corrupt an RTF file so it is not "openable" if you take out the wrong control strings. Just some background on why you'd use a different tool.
Cynthia