Date:         Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:25:27 -0500
Reply-To:     Droogendyk Bill <bill_droogendyk@DOFASCO.CA>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Droogendyk Bill <bill_droogendyk@DOFASCO.CA>
Subject:      Re: SAS output to pdf file
Comments: To: SAS-L <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
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Ephraim:

statement below should work in v8

options sysprint= 'Acrobat PDFWriter'
'f:\qsrptsys\RawReportFiles\liabmnth';*results in liabmnth.pdf;

filename pdf printer;

proc printto print=pdf new; 8append to append????;
run;

this normally eliminates the save as box too, but it may still show
sometimes.  Adobe has a patch for that.


W.(Bill) Droogendyk
Quality Systems
Dofasco Inc. Hamilton ON Canada
Telephone: 905 548 7200 x3359
Fax:    905 548 4007

SAS: Anything else is just a toy!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ephraim I. Schechter [SMTP:eischech@UNITY.NCSU.EDU]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March, 2001 09:19
> To:   SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject:      SAS output to pdf file
>
> In SAS v8 (WindowsNT), I want to send SAS output to a .pdf file. One way
> is to use the Output window in the normal way and "print" to the .pdf file
> by selecting "Acrobat PDFWriter" as the printer. Setting
>
>    options sysprint="Acrobat PDFWriter";
>    filename printit printer ;
>
> makes it a bit simpler by preselecting the PDFWriter.
>
> (1) Is there a way to have SAS bypass Acrobat's "Save As" dialog, so I
> don't have to hand-enter the name of the .pdf file? Adding
> altdest=filespec to the filename statement doesn't do it -- PDFWriter
> still gives me the dialog window.
>
> (2) Is there a way to automatically APPEND to an existing .pdf file? The
> output will actually be the result of a macro loop that processes
> different sets of data. Going directly to the Output window simply adds
> the results each time 'round the loop. If I set sysprint="Acrobat
> PDFWriter" though, Acrobat's "Save As" dialog come up each time the macro
> is invoked. How can I tell Acrobat to append the new "print" to the old
> file without using the dialog?
>
> Thanks in advance --
> Ephraim
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Ephraim Schechter
> University Planning & Analysis
> North Carolina State University