Date:         Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:49:23 -0400
Reply-To:     "Charles W." <cwentzel@PHC4.ORG>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Charles W." <cwentzel@PHC4.ORG>
Subject:      ODS pdf with url= :: get rid of the ugly blue box around your
              links

The following code creates a PDF document with a table of values, some of
which have links on them.  That's good.

But the cells in the table with links are surrounded by blue boxes.  That's
bad.

I can change the color of the boxes to any other color using the LINKCOLOR=
option.  What I'd like to do is get rid of the box altogether.  But
LINKCOLOR=TRANSPARENT doesn't work.  And LINKCOLOR=BLACK doesn't look right
either (leads to a heavier black line around the cell as compared to other
cells).

I've heard that in SAS v.9 there would be a way to get rid of that box.
But I can't figure out how.  Any ideas?

Here's the code:

***************************;

proc format;
  value $linkft
'sas'='//www.sas.com'
'sas-l'='//www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/sas-l.html'
'dilbert'='//www.dilbert.com';

run;


data k;
 input site $ desc $ 10-60;
cards;
sas       General information about SAS
sas-l     Details about SAS programming
dilbert   Usually good for a laugh
;
run;

ods pdf file='c:\working\links.pdf';
title 'List of Stuff';
proc report data=k nowindows;
  columns site desc ;
  define site /display;
  define desc /display;
  compute site;
    call define(_col_,"style","style=[url='"||put(site,$linkft.)||"']");
  endcomp;
run;

ods pdf close;