Hi:
(Hit Post instead of Preview on previous posting...sorry 'bout that)
One issue with your code is that you have
parent=styles.default, which by default has a gray background. If you inherited from STYLES.PRINTER instead, you would automatically get a white background.
A big difference between STYLES.PRINTER and STYLES.DEFAULT is that STYLES.DEFAULT was -designed- primarily for HTML output. STYLES.PRINTER, on the other hand was -designed- to be the style template used by default for ODS PDF (and other PRINTER-family destinations [like PS, PCL, etc]).
If you look at STYLES.PRINTER, you will see that it ALSO inherits from STYLES.DEFAULT, however, it has many, many more changes than just a change to the FONT section. So if you want to get the ENTIRE look and feel of what was originally designed for the PRINTER destinations, then you should have
parent=styles.printer ... or just cut and paste the whole, existing STYLES.PRINTER template into your editor window and change the font section (in which case, the parent would be STYLES.DEFAULT, but all the rest of the changes would be as designed for PDF).
So, that should take care of your gray background problem.
Your other issue, of why you are getting that "Continuing" message probably has something to do with ODS LAYOUT and the difference between the calculated physical page size and the logical page size. Since ODS LAYOUT is pre-production and has changed between 9.1.3 and 9.2, you might not find the exact answer you want in this paper, but it's a good place to start:
http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings10/011-2010.pdf
Otherwise, your best resource for ODS LAYOUT issues/difficulties is to work with Tech Support on this part of your question.
cynthia