As Gerhard said, you could use put statements but getting all of the fonts and sizes right would be a lot of work, not to mention creating the boxes on the form. To me the real question is how exact a copy of a 1040 do you want. Can you get by with a single font, no boxes, and simply the line number, text, and $$.

Do you need real form 1040s that a human would read or do you need the electronic format that is transmitted to the IRS. The latter should be simple.

Thinking further, there is a package called Omniform that lets you create a fillable form. When I played with it some 10+ years ago, it was supposedly ODBC compliant so you could presumably have SAS populate the cells and then use a PDF converter. There may be commercially templates written in Excel that you could populate and save as a PDF.

Nat Wooding

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