Creating PDF documents including hyper-links, bookmarks and a Table of Contents with the SAS® software
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ABSTRACT
When clinical studies are performed in pharmaceutical industry, statistical appendices are created using SAS® software. These appendices usually contain huge amounts of listings, tables, analyses and graphs, and form part of electronic submissions. Today, the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is the standard document format. It can be read on different platforms, and includes objects to easily navigate by using bookmarks and hyperlinks. In this way even large documents become very accessible.
This paper describes an automated process that combines various types of SAS output into PDF files, containing bookmarks and a Table of Contents. First, a SAS macro, %_SAS2PS, combines SAS output into one postscript file. This postscript file contains all SAS output, including a Table of Contents and so-called PDF-mark operators. Second, by running another SAS macro, %_PS2PDF, this postscript file will be sent through Acrobat Distiller, resulting in a PDF file that contains a Table of Contents, bookmarks and hyperlinks. The different techniques used in this approach are discussed.
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