Elizabeth Dennis, EMB Statistical SolutionsMaddy Dennis, Pharmapace

PharmaSUG 2015Paper #QT07

Converting RTF output to PDF output results in unwanted format changes

Using Proc Report code developed for ODS to RTF on ODS to PDF results in unwanted format changes

Best results come from ODS to PDF

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The paper contains a Proc Template example which meets the FDA requirements for version of Adobe, fonts, margins, etc.

The paper contains an ODS to PDF statement which meets the FDA requirements for page orientation, bookmarks, navigation tab, etc.

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Unicode symbols work as expected

A helpful table of all possible unicode symbols can be found on wikipedia

title5 j=c "Subjects ~{unicode 2265}50 Years of Age";

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The bottom border of the cell must be drawn to underline the spanning text

Column ("~S={borderbottomcolor=black borderbottomwidth=.5} Cycle 1 Treatment" col1-col3);

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Printing a line as the first footnote which spans the entire table layout

footnote "~{style [outputwidth=100% bordertopcolor=black Bordertopwidth=.1pt]}";

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Some exist as unicodes, so that is an option ~{super} and ~{sub} work, but the result is

abnormally small The best results come from offsetting the text,

slightly above or below the line

col1='Age~-12y~{style[font_size=7pt]a}';

col1='t~7y~{style[font_size=7pt]max}';

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If a categorical cell has a count of zero, then zero should print with no percentage The zero should align with other counts When both categorical and continuous data

are on one table, decimals should still be aligned

These can all be achieved using 2 columns, one for counts or descriptive statistics, and one for percentages

The template uses (cellpadding=0) so the 2 columns appear as one continuous column

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define col2/ display "Drug\(N=" style(header)=[just=right] style(column)=[just=d cellwidth=8% ];

define col3/ display "~{nbspace1}A\&n1)" style(header)=[just=left] style(column)=[just=d cellwidth=8% rightmargin=.3in];

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Adding blank spaces

col1=‘~_ ~_ ~_ ~_Males’;col1=‘~{nbspace 4}Males’;

Adding blank lines

col2=AESTDTC || ‘/~n || AEENDTC ;col2=AESTDTC || ‘/~{newline 1}’|| AEENDTC;

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Name: Elizabeth DennisOrganization: EMB Statistical Solutions LLCCity, State: Overland Park, KSE-mail: edennis@embstats.com

Name: Maddy DennisOrganization: PharmapaceCity, State: San Diego, CAE-mail: madison.dennis@pharmapace.com

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