ghellrieg@T-ONLINE.DE (Gerhard Hellriegel) writes:

> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:03:36 GMT, Tony Harmon > <atharmonshirt@REMOVESHIRTSWBELL.NET> wrote: > > >All, > > > >We have some SAS programs that create reports that are ftp'd > >to a mid-tier environment (AIX), and then converted to a pdf > >document. Our problem is that SAS is not putting the print > >control characters in the report and therefore the report > >doesn't page correctly when printed or viewed by anything > >other than the SAS system. Is there a parameter in PROC > >PRINT that tells SAS to put in the print control characters? > > > >Thanks, > >Tony > > > Hm, I think the main problem there is, that the print control chars on the > mainframe are the ASA - chars which on a AIX are only 1, -, +, ... but no > control-characters. > What about using ODS to produce something what also the AIX can handle? I > think it should be possible to produce formatted output in a standard > format, like HTML. I'm not really sure if it is possible to output PDFs > directly on the host machine, but I assume that it won't! But HTML could be > converted to PDF on the AIX machine, I'm sure. The "normal" output will not > contain any valid printer control chars. Another possibility: you can > produce a graphical output with proc gprint, e.g. GIFs, if you have graph > on the host. That should also be convertable to PDF.

Thanks. On the mainframe we have a process that strips the mainframe control characters and replaces them with the AIX equivalents. We then ftp the file down to the mid-tier where I have scripts that convert it to postscript then to pdf.

I think I may have found an answer: I found that in the FILE/FILENAME keyword you can specify cc=<format>. The problem is that I am not a SAS programmer, and we don't have anyone available. Right now it does a PROC PRINTTO to associate the file that the PROC PRINT statements print to. I'm guessing I have to associate a FILE/FILENAME to that file first?

Thanks, Tony