Date:         Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:18:23 -0800
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Subject:      Re: post-processing a post-script file
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Perhaps you could turn the problem around, by first removing PDFMARK
from your ODS statement.  Then "somehow" insert the ONE bookmark that
you do want.  Mind you I have no first hand experience with your
specific problem.


epelz@yahoo.com wrote:
> First post so bear with me...
>
> I'm using a macro to iteratively write single pages to a post-script
> file. I do it this way because I'm putting multiple proc report and
> proc gchart items on each page by using the startpage=never and ods
> layout/ods region statements.
>
> My problem is that I want to convert the ps file to pdf format and have
> one bookmark per page. After conversion there is one bookmark per
> procedure and they all point to the same page. (I contacted SAS and
> they confirm that there is no way to turn procedure level bookmarks off
> completely.)
>
> I can go in and manually edit the ps file to delete the unwanted
> bookmarks and increment the page references for the ones that I want to
> keep, but it is tedious. The good news is that the bookmark references
> are standard -- pdfmark[/Title(Label_1)/Page1/View[/XYZ# # # ]/OUT --
> so I can automate the process. If there are n pages and k procedures
> per page then I need to delete n*(k-1) pdfmark's and change n-1
> pdfmark's page reference.
>
> I'd like to keep it in SAS so production is seamless. Has anyone done
> this sort of work before? Much thanks.
>
> Here is a sketch of the code:
>
> filename outfile 'example.ps' mod;
> %macro pswriter();
>   ods ps style=journal startpage=never file=&psfile pdfmark;
>        ods layout start;
>        ods region x=5 in y=1.5 in height=2 in width=2 in;
>          proc report;
>        ods region x=0 in y=1.1 in height=4 in width=5 in;
>          proc gchart;
>   ods layout end;
>   ods ps file=&psfile close;
> %mend;
>
> %macro loop_ps;
> %do i=1 %to &total;
>   %pswriter();
> %end;
> %mend;