We have the need to produce a large pdf-report (Proc report) with variable left-border-margins prepared for physical book-printing. All odd pages should be produced with left border-margin 3cm, all even pages with margin 4cm.
Is this somehow possible? Any ideas, suggestions?
Thanks,
Karl
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Its code can be modified for your purpose by replacing the values of PAGENO= and LEFTMARGIN= with macro variables and adding little macro "driver" programs that would instruct different treatment for odd and even pages [1].
%macro leftmargin(&PAGENO, &LMAR);
options orientation=landscape nodate pageno=&PAGENO leftmargin=&LMAR rightmargin=.25in;
ods pdf file='c:\temp\carss.pdf';
proc report data=sashelp.cars(obs=30) nowd;
title '1) take all defaults';
run;
%mend;
/*
Following are the driver macros for odd
and even pages, respectively
*/
%macro lmar_odds;
%DO i = 1 %TO lastpage %BY 2;
%leftmargin( &i, 3cm )
%END;
%mend;
%macro lmar_evens;
%DO i = 2 %TO lastpage %BY 2;
%leftmargin( &i, 4cm )
%END;
%mend;
/* Calling the macros */
%lmar_odds
%lmar_evens
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