Writing Your Graphs to a PDF File

About Writing Your Graphs to a PDF File

You can use the ODS PDF destination to write your graph output to a PDF Version 1.4 file or a PDF file that is compliant with PDF/A-1b standards and can be archived. You can add multiple graphs to your PDF file with one or more graphs per page. You can also add bookmarks, links, and document metadata in your PDF file, and use system options to change the default page layout of your document.

The ODS PDF destination supports the SAS/GRAPH fonts, the TrueType fonts that are installed with the Base SAS product, and the resident PDF fonts. The resident PDF fonts are the Base 14 fonts that are installed by default with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. These fonts include:

Courier	Helvetica	Times	Times/bold/italic
Courier/oblique	Helvetica/oblique	Times/italic	Symbol
Courier/bold	Helvetica/bold	Times/bold	ITC Zapf Dingbats
Courier/bold/oblique	Helvetica/bold/oblique

For more information on fonts, see Specifying Fonts in SAS/GRAPH Programs.

By default, the ODS PDF destination writes your output to a PDF Version 1.4 file. To write your graphs to a PDF file that can be archived, add the PRINTER=PDFA option to your ODS statement. The PDFA Universal Printer shortcut device creates a PDF file that is compliant with PDF/A-1b standards and can be archived. See Using Graphics Devices for information on the PDFA Universal Printer shortcut device. See Creating a PDF/A-1b-Compliant File that Contains Multiple Graphs Per Page for an example of how to create an archivable PDF file.

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