Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Adding Images to RTF Output (with Templates)

One of the quickest and easiest ways to dress up your RTF reports is to drop in a logo or graphic on each page. All you need to do is find a JPEG or PNG or other type of graphic to use, and write a simple PROC TEMPLATE step to create a style using your graphic. In an earlier chapter, we illustrated the use of logo insertion using ODS ESCAPECHAR.

Another way to insert a logo at the top of the first page of your output is to define a new ODS style and then reference the style in the first ODS RTF statement of your program. The following code defines the style RTFImage, which copies all the attributes from the RTF style and modifies the PREIMAGE= attribute of the Body style element. The attribute PREIMAGE= ...