Creating PDF Files That Include Hyperlinks and Annotations

The PDF file format is a lot more than just a convenient way to share electronic documents. ODS can also add interactive features to your PDF files. You can add a hyperlink to a PDF document, enabling the viewer to link to a related Web site. We have already seen the use of LINK= in the SAS TITLE statement. That feature of ODS works with PDF in the same manner as it works for HTML and RTF. So here we illustrate another method of performing linking and adding annotations to PDF files.

You can add annotations that create pop-up notes with added details. To access these features, you use the STYLE= option and the URL= and FLYOVER= attributes. The STYLE= option is currently supported for ...

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