Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Controlling Page Breaks

As with RTF output, you can turn page breaks on and off for the printer destinations. This allows you to save some space if you have a procedure that doesn't generate much output. By turning off page breaks, you can start the next procedure's output on the same page.

To turn page breaks off, use the STARTPAGE=NO option. For example, if you have a small table produced by the MEANS procedure, and you'd like to continue your report with the results from a PROC UNIVARIATE step on the same page, the following code will do the trick:

ODS PDF FILE='startpage.pdf' STARTPAGE=NO;
proc means data=gallery maxdec=0;
   var sales revenue;
run;
proc univariate data=gallery normal;
   var sales revenue;
run;
ODS PDF CLOSE;

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