Paper SIB-097 Combining Text and Graphics with ODS LAYOUT and ODS REGION

Through the Output Delivery System (ODS), SAS ® Software provides a means for creating an attractive, concise, and functional report without post-processing using other software products. Because ODS is an object-oriented (OO) technology, it provides the ability to move beyond template descriptions to complete output layout. This paper presents a combined text and graphics report based on an exploratory analysis of behavioral health cost risk using ODS LAYOUT and ODS REGION and writing to the PDF destination. In addition, this paper provides information on additional options that can be used with both ODS LAYOUT and the PDF destination to assist users in the creation of customized presentation and production reports. The example in this paper was developed with version 9.1.3 of SAS executing on a Windows XP platform. SAS Version 9.1 is required for the ODS graphics extensions and was required for the graphics used in this paper. The SAS features represented in this paper are not platform-specific and can be adapted by both beginning and advanced SAS users