Output Delivery System: The Basics and Beyond

Using Style Templates to Make Smaller Output Files

We've talked in previous chapters about using COMPRESS= to reduce the size of PDF files and of using PHTML or CHTML to reduce the size of HTML files. You might also want to have your output take up less "real estate" on the page— that is, reduce the width and/or height of the report output. ODS uses two main style settings to control the overall size of ODS output: the font sizes and the cell padding around values in cells. The cell padding is the space between cell text and the rules on all four sides of the text. For example, the following PROC TEMPLATE step defines style Styles.Smaller, which shrinks the output to about 80% of the usual size by reducing font sizes and cell padding. The parent ...