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In SAS 8.1, the PDFMARK option with the ODS PRINTER statement inserts special tags into the PostScript file that allow Adobe Acrobat Distiller to do special markup. In SAS 8.2 and later, the PDF option improves upon this, producing PDF directly without the use of third-party software.

With either of these options to the ODS PRINTER statement, by default you get three special kinds of formatting added:

• Links. Basically you generate URLs just like HMTL, and ODS PDF tries to "do the right thing" with them. See FAQ 4148 for in-depth information.
• Table of contents. A table of contents window called Bookmarks is generated and displayed so the reader can navigate through the PDF output.
• Notes. Items with the style attribute FLYOVER= are turned into PDF notes (also called annotations).

Because the bookmarks and notes aren't always desired, ODS provides a way to turn them off:

• In SAS 8.1, the NOPDFNOTE option turns off both notes and bookmarks.
• In SAS 8.2 and later, the NOPDFNOTE option only turns off notes. (PDFNOTE is the default.) The NOTOC option turns off bookmarks.
• In SAS 9.0 and later, BOOKMARKLIST= controls the display of bookmarks for a PDF file. BOOKMARKGEN= controls the generation of bookmarks for a PDF file. (If you set BOOKMARKGEN=NO, then the BOOKMARKLIST option is set to NO also.) The NOTOC option is still supported; it behaves like BOOKMARKGEN=NO.

You can control the formatting of bookmarks in PDF similarly to the CONTENTS file in ODS HTML, except you can't use workarounds like starting and ending comments.

The PROC TEMPLATE FAQ provides a Table of Contents FAQ that discusses modifying the HTML contents, and it might be a handy reference. Here is a quick guide to what works in ODS PRINTER.

• The ODS PROCLABEL statement changes the label used for the procedure. This is discussed in FAQ 3238.
• The CONTENTS=YES (alias ON) option produces a Table of Contents page at the beginning of the PDF document. This is different from the bookmarks on the left. CONTENTS= is experimental for SAS 9.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3 but should become production in a future release.
• The CONTENTS_LABEL attribute in the table template lets you change the contents label for those tables that support it. There is a sample of code that uses this in FAQ 3239.
• The DESCRIPTION= option on the action statement of SAS/GRAPH procedures specifies the second-level entries for bookmarks in PDF files. Note that specifying a null value does not work as expected; see SAS Note 11888.
• More ODS PDF options are explained in the SAS online documentation.

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