Arjen:

You can specify column widths for PDF using the style= option:

proc report ...

define desc_col / display style=[just=l cellwidth=2in] ; .... run;

In terms of having order columns repeated, I'm not sure if you'll have the same problem, but I do know ( as per my post yesterday ) that the ID option and ODF PDF don't work together as per http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007704.html <http://www.sas.com/service/techsup/unotes/SN/007/007704.html> , and, this won't be fixed until v9.

-----Original Message----- From: Arjen Raateland [mailto:arjen.raateland@YMPARISTO.FI] Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 10:19 AM To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: ODS RTF using Proc Report with ORDER columns

> into Microsoft Word. ODS RTF lets Word decide where the page breaks are. > As a result, Proc Report doesn't know that it needs to repeat the "order" > value. > > There's no work-around to my knowledge, other than manually editing the .rtf > file. Can you use ODS PRINTER instead? Your code should work fine with > that destination.

After reading Schellenberger's article mentioned in an earlier post on this subject I decided that what my application should actually produce is PDF, not RTF as I originally set it up to do.

Changing RTF output in an application to PDF was a quick job, but it didn't correct the problem of not having order values repeat on each page. They still don't show up, although in PDF there is no reason to leave them out like in RTF. Can anybody confirm this or can it be helped somehow?

Apart from not correcting the order value problem I now also got two new problems, which may be easier to fix, though.

The last column of one of the reports doesn't fit any longer and gets moved to another page. I suppose I need to set the columns width with a STYLE option like those I noticed in the sample code in the first post of this thread.

The other thing is that column widths change from page to page ....

So much to learn ;-) -- Arjen Raateland Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Research Dept. SAS Support phone +358 9 4030 0350