October 2009
Beginner
636 pages
13h 35m
English
PDF files that are created by ODS in SAS®9 have a compression level set automatically. The compression levels range from 0 (no compression) to 9 (highest compression). The default compression level is set to 6. The following ODS PDF statements are equivalent:
ODS PDF FILE='cmprsdef.pdf'; ODS PDF FILE='cmprs6.pdf' compress=6;
Rather than focus on the SAS code here, what we highlight instead is a benchmarking technique thatenables you to determine the best compression level for your PDF output. We chose a simple PROCPRINT of SASHELP.SHOES for this test. When you do your benchmarking, you will need to putyour procedure(s) of choice inside the ODS PDF statements and remove the PROC PRINT ...
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