Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Creating Your First RTF File

The best thing about creating RTF output is that you have to learn only one new piece of syntax: just change the keyword HTML to RTF in your ODS statement. It takes only a single simple command to begin creating an RTF file:

ODS RTF FILE='myfile.rtf';

One simple change that you can make for RTF output is to use the STYLE= option in the invocation statement to generate a report with a completely different look and feel for the output.

ODS RTF FILE='myfile2.rtf' STYLE=JOURNAL;

Just as with the ODS HTML statement, you can list a literal filename, or use a fileref to refer to a previously defined filename. Next, you insert your procedure or DATA step to create some output. Finally, you close the RTF file with the following: ...