topic Re: Combine multiple rtf files into one file but page number fails in SAS Programming

Combine multiple rtf files into one file but page number fails

jsbyxws — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:03:06 GMT

Hello,

I used the macro (http://pharma-sas.com/a-sas-macro-to-combine-portrait-and-landscape-rtf-files-into-one-single-file/) on one scenario and found the page number did not keep the original one. Instead pages is from 1 to N where N is the number of total pages of combined RTF file. The reason I suspect is that RTF code when opened in NotePad++ contains page information like this

\fldinst { PAGE }}}{ of }{\field{\*\fldinst { NUMPAGES }}} .

And this is probably due to fact that RTF code "^{pageof}" in used in proc report in SAS program to create the RTF file.

Can someone help?

Re: Combine multiple rtf files into one file but page number fails

Tom — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 18:36:26 GMT

So what is your question?

Are you asking if there is RTF syntax that allows numbering to restart from 1 when you start a new section of the file?

That is probably a question you should ask on an RTF or Microsoft forum.

Re: Combine multiple rtf files into one file but page number fails

jsbyxws — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 02:46:39 GMT

Thanks for asking!

For example, I want to combine two rtf files, each has 1 page. Each page is "1 of 1" with page number . But the combined rtf file has "1 of 2" and "2 of 2". This is NOT what I wanted. What I wanted is the original page: "1 of 1" and "1 of 1".

To create two rtf files with SAS, I use "^{pageof}", where "^" is escape character. See code below to create two dummy rtf files: RTF1.rtf and RTF2.rtf.

And RTF1.rtf is like below:

The combined rtf file is like below for page 1. You can see page now is "1 of 2".